EXERCISE 4
Briefly identify each of the following for the example below and then for your own autobiography:
1. your story’s final pivotal event–(climax).
A turning point that could be the end of my story where something in me died so something could live or be born?
2. the initial scene
With what scene was I aware of [...]
Archive for October, 2009
THE STORY ONLY YOU CAN TELL – Part 5
Posted in Agents, Autobiography, Biography, Book Proposal, Book Reviews, John Lehman, Manuscript Help, Marketing Plan, Memoirs, New Writing Contests, Query Letter, Top Writing Contests, books, contests, creative writing, fiction, get published, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, reviews, writing, writing contests, tagged Climax, Obstacles, Pivotal Event, Realization, Turning Point on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE STORY ONLY YOU CAN TELL – Part 3
Posted in Agents, Autobiography, Biography, Book Proposal, Book Reviews, John Lehman, Manuscript Help, Marketing Plan, Memoirs, New Writing Contests, Query Letter, Richard Brautigan, Robert Frost, Stopping by the Woods, Top Writing Contests, books, contests, creative writing, fiction, get published, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, reviews, writing, writing contests, tagged bad daughters, creating drama, DeNiro, good mothers, Marlon Brando, Michael Shurtleff, Pachino, Rosebud Magazine, using opposites on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
USING OPPOSITES
Before we do the fleshing out of these scenes, there’s something worth remembering. Inexperienced writers are afraid they’re going to loose their audiences if they don’t hook them with the title and a gimmicky first line. Give your audience credit for more intelligence than this. Remember they’re not coming to this work critically, [...]
THE STORY ONLY YOU CAN TELL – Part 2
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THE NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The New Autobiography is a vibrantly democratic and deeply personal type of narrative writing that, while little understood, is becoming popular in our culture. it is new because it is being written by new voices, not only those who represent the official and dominant view from the top. It is new because it [...]
THE STORY ONLY YOU CAN TELL – Part 1
Posted in Agents, Autobiography, Biography, Book Proposal, Book Reviews, John Lehman, Manuscript Help, Marketing Plan, Memoirs, New Writing Contests, Query Letter, books, contests, creative writing, fiction, get published, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, reviews, writing, writing contests, tagged Editing, First Draft, Oliver Sacks, Pre-Writing, writing on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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You want to see how your life makes a story by setting it down.
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