Writing life stories : how to make memories into memoirs, ideas into essays, and life into literature
(2008)
By:
Roorbach, Bill
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
808.06692/ROORBACH,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, [2008]
©2008
©2008
EDITION
Fully revised second edition, [Tenth anniversary edition]
DESCRIPTION
296 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781582975276 (pbk. : alk. paper), 1582975272 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Getting started -- Memory -- Scenemaking -- Big ideas -- Characters and character -- Stage presence -- Finding the facts -- Metaphor and meaning -- Saying it right -- Building a building -- Getting published -- Appendix A : "Into woods" / by Bill Roorbach -- Appendix B : "The olive jar" / by Kristen Keckler -- Appendix C : "On apprenticeship" / by Bill Roorbach -- Appendix D : suggested readings in creative nonfiction