Short stories of the daily life of simple folk, with all their passions and turmoils, surfacing, at times

What Became of Them and Other Stories from Franco America

Ledoux, Denis

Literature & Fiction

Soleil Pr

Lives in Translation: An Anthology of Contemporary Franco-American Writers

United States

Provides exercises which discuss interview and research methods, offers technical tips on writing style and grammar, and gives advice on overcoming possible obstacles

TURNING MEMORIES INTO MEMOIRS: A HANDBOOK FOR WRITING LIFESTORIES

Heinemann

The best guide available for remembering and writing stories that turn regular photo albums into lifestory photo albums. 128 pages of helpful text, hands-on exercises, and lifestory examples. The Photo Scribe helps to recall the stories of your life and will show you how not only to write better captions but to go beyond captions into lifestory writing. Your albums can go from being just lovely pages to telling your story and the story of your family.

The Photo Scribe - A Writing Guide: How to Write the Stories Behind Your Photographs

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Mountain Dance and Other Stories

History & Criticism

Coastwise Pr

A Sugary Frosting / A Memoir of A Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage and How I Survived Being a Preacher's Kid This memoir reveals an underside of being the preacher's kid, a public role that is rife with challenges of supporting your minister father and your minister's-wife mother and of becoming yourself, a person they may not have expected to come out of their household. Relationships in this memoir are portrayed honestly and sometimes not flatteringly. A Sugary Frosting, a phrase derived from Martha's journals, is a memoir of surviving religious idealism and inherited belief to undertake to become one’s self. WHAT YOU'LL ENJOY A Sugary Frosting is a step through the 1950s and 1960s that will bring the life of those years to the fore—at least as it was lived in a parsonage. In its pages, you will observe: • the viciousness of the "White Church" whose members sent hate notes to the minister. • the minister's little girl showing her rosebud petticoat to the church ladies. • women going to church wearing gloves—even in summer. • the minister's daughter smoking pot and telling her parents it was incense. • what it can feel like to be a superior lyric soprano and not wanting to sing. • going to an elite private school and hating it. • being bullied by a high school teacher. • living a life where everything had to be nice-nice. • her parents' anti-war protests that lead to being dismissed from a pulpit These—and more—stories, told artfully and insightfully, will keep you reading long past when you should be asleep. In A Sugary Frosting / A Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage, the hero comes to the realization that the religious beliefs she has inherited do not fit comfortably. From early on, she wonders "What does it mean 'to love Jesus?'" She struggles to make belief and experience mesh but as she writes, "I was too young to understand, but I knew my own experience and not belief had to be my guide." Download A Sugary Frosting / A Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage now. The financial investment is small, and the pleasures are great. Scroll to the top of this page and select the "buy" button now.

A Sugary Frosting: A Memoir of a Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage

Biographies & Memoirs

Blowen, Martha

Community & Culture

Soleil Press

START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT / Stop asking yourself if you should write your memoir, find inspiration to begin, and learn techniques of the art of memoir writing that will impel you to succeed. To start writing your memoir with a bang, explore—before you invest too much time and energy in beginning to write a memoir—if this idea of yours to compose a memoir is a right choice or a misfire. You answer can both save you grief if it is a misfire and set you on a strong start if it is a right choice. As a long-time writing coach, Denis Ledoux has helped many writers grapple with this question. START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT is a writing guide that distillates his years of coaching and teaching memoir writing skills. His expert advice on launching the memoir writing process will focus your inquiry and save you much time and energy. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT is a step-by-step guide that will help you both decide whether or not you should write a memoir and with what to do with a positive answer. You will learn many techniques for setting yourself up for success. You will learn: •why you need an answer to why you should—or should not—write a memoir. •what your biggest challenge is likely to be—hint: it's not finding time. •why writing an autobiography, rather than a memoir, is probably not a good idea. •what tasks you absolutely must do before you start to write. •how to assess if you have enough writing supports and, if not, how to get enough. •how to mine your journal to bring depth to your memoir. These—and more—best writing practices will power start you to write your memoir. START YOUR MEMOIR Right lays out a clear writing path as to why you should or should not write your memoir, where to find inspiration to begin, and explains how to learn techniques of the art of memoir writing that will impel you to succeed. •Each step for assessing whether you should or should not be writing a memoir is clearly and simply presented. •You will learn why each step in the decision-making process is important in itself and how to implement it. •Doing this work now will ease the writing process later. •The steps in this book will prepare you to write the best memoir you are capable of—or not write, if that is what you should do. Even if you were to decide not to write a memoir, the modest purchase price for this book will be a great investment. Think of the time and energy you will have saved! …concise, yet full of good ideas and new approaches. — Joyce Putnam Eblen THE MEMOIR NETWORK WRITING SERIES Whether you are writing a memoir, creative non-fiction, or fiction, the suggestions in this book—as those in the other books in the Memoir Network Writing Series—are applicable. Our Don't Let Writer's Block Stop You shows you how you can let writer's block teach you how to push beyond stuck. Our Write to the End / Eight Strategies to Thrive as a Writerwlll help you to complete your writing projects and reach the audiences you deserve. Other how to write titles are forthcoming. Download START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT now. The financial investment is small, and the writing rewards are great.

Start Your Memoir Right: Strategies for an Effective Writing Launch (Books for Memoir Writers)

Arts & Literature

A Consumer's Guide to Ghostwriting Services: How to Choose and Work With the Best Co-author for You

Memoirs

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Turning Memories Into Memoirs: A Handbook for Writing Lifestories

Independently published

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