
Writing Life Stories
How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays and Life into Literature
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From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers.
Writing Life Stories is a classic text that appears on countless creative nonfiction and composition syllabi the world over. This updated 10th anniversary edition gives you the same friendly instruction and stimulating exercises along with updated information on current memoir writing trends, ethics, internet research, and even marketing ideas. You'll discover how to turn your untold life stories into vivid personal essays and riveting memoirs by learning to open up memory, access emotions, shape scenes from experience, develop characters, and research supporting details.
This guide will teach you to see your life more clearly and show you why real stories are often the best ones.
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The Stephen King Companion is an authoritative look at horror author King's personal life and professional career, from Carrie to The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. King expert George Beahm, who has published extensively about Maine's main author, is your seasoned guide to the imaginative world of Stephen King, covering his varied and prodigious output: juvenalia, short fiction, limited edition books, best-selling novels, and film adaptations.
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A Kingopedia: Books, Movies, Bio and Art
- De tru britty en 02-28-16
De: George Beahm
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- De: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, y otros
- Narrado por: Alexander Neubauer
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets (Knopf, 2010), invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets. Full of compelling, in-depth conversation about manuscripts and drafts by the poets themselves, plus readings of the finished poems, these historic recordings offer one of the most detailed portraits ever produced of how poems are actually made.
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Fascinating
- De d en 08-28-16
De: Lucille Clifton, y otros
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My Life with Bob
- Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
- De: Pamela Paul
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens, Pamela Paul
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for 28 years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read.
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An uncanny mirror and a celebration of book love
- De Cherilyn Parsons en 07-28-19
De: Pamela Paul
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Salinger
- De: David Shields, Shane Salerno
- Narrado por: Peter Friedman, January LaVoy, Robert Petkoff, y otros
- Duración: 19 h y 34 m
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Shields and Salerno illuminate most brightly the last 56 years of Salinger’s life: a period that, until now, had remained completely dark to biographers. Provided unprecedented access to diaries, letters, legal records, and secret documents, listeners will feel they have, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger’s meticulously built-up wall. The result is the definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century.
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Ingenious novel or biography? Hard to tell....
- De Melinda en 09-05-13
De: David Shields, y otros
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
- Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
- De: Annie Spence
- Narrado por: Stephanie Spicer
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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Librarians spend their lives weeding - not weeds, but books - books that have reached the end of their shelf life both literally and figuratively. They remove books that patrons no longer check out, and they put back books they treasure. Annie Spence, who has a decade of experience as a Midwestern librarian, does this not only at her Michigan library but also at home, for her neighbors, at cocktail parties - everywhere. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, she addresses those books directly.
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awesome!
- De christine a towns en 08-11-18
De: Annie Spence
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Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
- De: anonymous
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman, Lyle Lovett, J. Smith-Cameron
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is two stories: that of the reclusive real-life writer who created a fictional character out of loneliness and thin air, and that of the magical Duchess Goldblatt herself, a bright light in the darkness of social media. Fans around the world are drawn to Her Grace's voice, her wit, her life-affirming love for all humanity, and the fun and friendship of the community that's sprung up around her.
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Oh Dear Duchess!
- De Rebecca Lindroos en 07-20-20
De: anonymous
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The Enchanted Hour
- The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
- De: Meghan Cox Gurdon
- Narrado por: Meghan Cox Gurdon
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
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advice to take to heart
- De Brian en 04-30-20
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Philip Roth
- The Biography
- De: Blake Bailey
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 31 h y 46 m
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"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost 10 years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and listening to Roth's own breathtakingly candid confessions. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth's engagement with nearly every aspect of postwar American culture.
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moved
- De Michael en 08-18-21
De: Blake Bailey
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Bookworm
- A Memoir of Childhood Reading
- De: Lucy Mangan
- Narrado por: Lucy Mangan
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy and played by the tracks with the Railway Children.
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The author’s sarcasm
- De Phil B. en 10-01-24
De: Lucy Mangan
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
- De: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 26 h y 43 m
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Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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Riveted for 1591 miles
- De Kaysi12 en 04-11-16
De: Tracy Daugherty
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The Memoir Project
- A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text For Writing & Life
- De: Marion Roach Smith
- Narrado por: Marion Roach Smith
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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Whether or not one has lived an exceptional or dramatic life, we inherently understand that writing memoir—whether it’s a book, blog, or just a letter to a child - is the single greatest portal to self-examination. Stop treading water in writing exercises or hiding behind “writer’s block” and learn how to write with intent. Marion Roach Smith’s disarmingly frank but wildly fun tactics offer you simple and effective guidelines that work. Your legacy beings now.
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amazing what you can learn from brevity
- De Schwartz-Burrill en 09-15-11
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The Art of Memoir
- De: Mary Karr
- Narrado por: Mary Karr
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process. (Plus all those inside stories about how she dealt with family and friends get told - and the dark spaces in her own skull probed in depth.)
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Brilliant!
- De A. Potter en 01-18-16
De: Mary Karr
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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition
- A Guide to Narrative Craft
- De: Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades, it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft.
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Great content!
- De Noa en 09-20-19
De: Janet Burroway, y otros
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The Art of Writing Memoir
- Finding the Past in the Present
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 3 h y 45 m
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This weekend workshop, recorded live, is a primer on writing the modern memoir, which, unlike your grandmother's memoir, can be written at any age. Also, a memoir can be about just part of your life. "The more you are present, the more the past will come up and be alive," says Natalie. "Only right now can give you your past."
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For right brain writers, not left brain
- De Cindy en 03-01-14
De: Natalie Goldberg
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Writing on Empty
- A Guide to Finding Your Voice
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the beginning of the pandemic, she suddenly wasn’t able to write anymore. Her imaginative wellspring had dried up, and she was forced to ask herself: what do I do when what has always worked for me doesn’t work anymore? In this beautifully written, inspiring personal account, Natalie shares her harrowing journey out of creative paralysis and back onto the page.
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A zen -tour de force!
- De Innocent Bystander en 07-24-24
De: Natalie Goldberg
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How to Write Best-Selling Fiction
- De: James Scott Bell, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: James Scott Bell
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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Most people think the way to write a best seller is to have a lot of talent and even more luck. As you will learn, there is a recipe for success, and luck may be the least important ingredient in creating a best seller. No one has cracked the code better than James Scott Bell. A best-selling author himself, and the author of the number-one best seller for writers, Plot & Structure, Mr. Bell has been teaching the principles of best-selling fiction for over 20 years, principles that apply to any genre or style.
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I'm a writer and this course is to blame.
- De accentrique en 07-22-19
De: James Scott Bell, y otros
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The Memoir Project
- A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text For Writing & Life
- De: Marion Roach Smith
- Narrado por: Marion Roach Smith
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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Whether or not one has lived an exceptional or dramatic life, we inherently understand that writing memoir—whether it’s a book, blog, or just a letter to a child - is the single greatest portal to self-examination. Stop treading water in writing exercises or hiding behind “writer’s block” and learn how to write with intent. Marion Roach Smith’s disarmingly frank but wildly fun tactics offer you simple and effective guidelines that work. Your legacy beings now.
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amazing what you can learn from brevity
- De Schwartz-Burrill en 09-15-11
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The Art of Memoir
- De: Mary Karr
- Narrado por: Mary Karr
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process. (Plus all those inside stories about how she dealt with family and friends get told - and the dark spaces in her own skull probed in depth.)
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Brilliant!
- De A. Potter en 01-18-16
De: Mary Karr
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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition
- A Guide to Narrative Craft
- De: Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades, it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft.
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Great content!
- De Noa en 09-20-19
De: Janet Burroway, y otros
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The Art of Writing Memoir
- Finding the Past in the Present
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 3 h y 45 m
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This weekend workshop, recorded live, is a primer on writing the modern memoir, which, unlike your grandmother's memoir, can be written at any age. Also, a memoir can be about just part of your life. "The more you are present, the more the past will come up and be alive," says Natalie. "Only right now can give you your past."
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For right brain writers, not left brain
- De Cindy en 03-01-14
De: Natalie Goldberg
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Writing on Empty
- A Guide to Finding Your Voice
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the beginning of the pandemic, she suddenly wasn’t able to write anymore. Her imaginative wellspring had dried up, and she was forced to ask herself: what do I do when what has always worked for me doesn’t work anymore? In this beautifully written, inspiring personal account, Natalie shares her harrowing journey out of creative paralysis and back onto the page.
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A zen -tour de force!
- De Innocent Bystander en 07-24-24
De: Natalie Goldberg
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How to Write Best-Selling Fiction
- De: James Scott Bell, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: James Scott Bell
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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Most people think the way to write a best seller is to have a lot of talent and even more luck. As you will learn, there is a recipe for success, and luck may be the least important ingredient in creating a best seller. No one has cracked the code better than James Scott Bell. A best-selling author himself, and the author of the number-one best seller for writers, Plot & Structure, Mr. Bell has been teaching the principles of best-selling fiction for over 20 years, principles that apply to any genre or style.
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I'm a writer and this course is to blame.
- De accentrique en 07-22-19
De: James Scott Bell, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Writing Life Stories
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- Nicholas T.
- 10-12-24
One of the best books on writing nonfiction
I was not expecting to learn quite so much from this book. It’s already improved my writing, and I will keep going through it again and again.
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- umaybeme
- 06-29-23
Great!
Covered all aspects of what I wanted, needed, and had no clue. Highly recommend to any person serious about writing… life or otherwise.
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- LauraVeronique
- 12-08-23
Why oh why didn’t I find this book 50 years ago?
Bill Roorbach is the writing teacher that I have been looking for since 1970, when Sr. Marie Consolata poisoned my dream of being a writer by accusing me of plagiarism on my Research paper on Macbeth in my junior year in Honors English at Immaculata Preparatory School. She accused me of plagiarism again on my research paper on Hamlet during my senior year at Immaculata Prep. This time, she had also accused the president of the Junior Class of plagiarism on her Macbeth paper. Since I was in a state of shock, all I remember Sister Marie Consolata saying is, “This happens with good students because they retain all that they read.” She dismissed us coldly. Perhaps that was her way of “consoling” us? Too little too late! The damage was done, for that is all she ever said to me about the accusations of plagiarism. After two years in Honors English with Sister Marie Consolata, I left her class traumatized, terrified of writing a single word for fear of being falsely accused of plagiarism again, for I did not understand , never knew what I had written that she thought I had plagiarized. She never explained, and I was too paralyzed with shame and horror to ask her, for English had been my favorite subject since I was five years old, when I learned to read.
Now, 50 years later, after reading Bill Roorbach’s brilliant book, Life Stories: How to Turn Memory into Memoir, Ideas into Essays and Life into Literature, I understand that Sister Marie Consolata never taught me anything about writing, much less how to write research papers on Macbeth and Hamlet. She was not a writing teacher. Bill Roorbach is a writing teacher, a genius of a writing teacher. After listening to his book, I know I can begin to write again, for that has been my dream since I read Little Women, Lord of the Rings and Tess of the D’Urbervilles, when I was in 8th grade at St. Thomas Apostle grade school. Reading saved me, was my escape from a violent, alcoholic stepfather, a broken, complicit immigrant mother, living in isolation and poverty. Books were my sanctuary. I had begun to write poems, short stories, essays- until Sister Marie Consolata punched me in the stomach with her plagiarism accusations, and I stopped breathing, and writing. I had revered her so, yet she betrayed me, and caused so much damage in my life.
Bill Roorbach’s lessons, assignments, advice, encouragement - his writing, has been so healing, the therapy I’ve been searching for all my life, a salve for my wounded soul. If you want to write, or write better, do yourself a favor - buy this book!
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