Patti Miller is an award-winning memoirist and nonfiction writer, whose 2012 book, The Mind of a Thief, was longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Nita Kibble Prize, shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize for Non-Fiction, winner of the NSW Premier's Prize for History and on the syllabus for English for the VCE in Victoria. Since then she has released Ransacking Paris, 2015, and The Joy of High Places, 2019, to critical acclaim. Her two previous writing books, Writing Your Life and The Memoir Book, have been continually in print since publication. Patti is a highly successful life-writing teacher and mentor who offers courses at the Faber Academy, as well as many other writing centres around Australia and in Paris and London. Her tenth book, True Friends, will be released in April 2022.
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Prologue Part One: Starting Out 1. Exploring the territory 2. How to use this book 3. Workshop One: Getting started 4. Workshop Two: Memory and other sources 5. Workshop Three: Bringing it to life - Detail 6. Workshop Four: Bringing it to life - Scenes 7. Workshop Five: Finding your voice 8. Workshop Six: Structure 9. Workshop Seven: Inventing the story - Narrative 10. Workshop Eight: Style matters and editing Part Two: Masterclasses 11. Workshop Nine: Midway blues - Continuing on 12. Workshop Ten: Madeleines and unicorns - Sensory detail 13. Workshop Eleven: Research 14. Workshop Twelve: The storyteller's seat - Narrating position 15. Workshop Thirteen: Beauty of form - More structure 16. Workshop Fourteen: The magic spell - More narrative 17. Workshop Fifteen: Difficulties of truth-telling 18. Workshop Sixteen: Avoiding self-indulgence 19. Workshop Seventeen: Borderlands - Memoir and fiction 20. Workshop Eighteen: Creative nonfiction 21. Workshop Nineteen: Wish you were here-Travel memoir 22. Workshop Twenty: Random provocations-The personal essay 23. Where to now?-Publishing Reading list Useful contacts Acknowledgements Index
Part I: Starting out 1. Exploring the territory 2. How to use this book 3. Workshop one: Getting started 4. Workshop two: Memory and other sources 5. Workshop three Bringing it to life - Detail 6. Workshop four: Bringing it to life - Scenes 7. Workshop five Finding your voice 8. Workshop six: Structure 9. Workshop seven: Inventing the Story - Narrative 10. Workshop eight: Style matters and editing Part II: Masterclasses 11. Workshop nine: Midway blues - Continuing on 12. Workshop ten: Madeleines and unicorns - Sensory detail 13. Workshop eleven: Research 14. Workshop twelve: The storyteller's seat - Narrating position 15. Workshop thirteen: Beauty of form - More structure 16. Workshop fourteen: Magic spells - More narrative 17. Workshop fifteen: Private! Diaries, journals, notebooks, letters, emails 18. Workshop sixteen: Creative nonfiction - Crime, journalism, nature, history, biography 19. Workshop seventeen: Creative nonfiction - The personal essay 20. Workshop eighteen: Creative nonfiction - Travel memoir 21. Workshop nineteen: Creative nonfiction - Borderlands: is it true? 22. Workshop twenty: Difficulties and ethics of truth-telling 23. Workshop twenty-one: Avoiding self-indulgence 24. Where to now? Publishing
Prologue Part One: Starting Out 1. Exploring the territory 2. How to use this book 3. Workshop One: Getting started 4. Workshop Two: Memory and other sources 5. Workshop Three: Bringing it to life - Detail 6. Workshop Four: Bringing it to life - Scenes 7. Workshop Five: Finding your voice 8. Workshop Six: Structure 9. Workshop Seven: Inventing the story - Narrative 10. Workshop Eight: Style matters and editing Part Two: Masterclasses 11. Workshop Nine: Midway blues - Continuing on 12. Workshop Ten: Madeleines and unicorns - Sensory detail 13. Workshop Eleven: Research 14. Workshop Twelve: The storyteller's seat - Narrating position 15. Workshop Thirteen: Beauty of form - More structure 16. Workshop Fourteen: The magic spell - More narrative 17. Workshop Fifteen: Difficulties of truth-telling 18. Workshop Sixteen: Avoiding self-indulgence 19. Workshop Seventeen: Borderlands - Memoir and fiction 20. Workshop Eighteen: Creative nonfiction 21. Workshop Nineteen: Wish you were here-Travel memoir 22. Workshop Twenty: Random provocations-The personal essay 23. Where to now?-Publishing Reading list Useful contacts Acknowledgements Index
Part I: Starting out 1. Exploring the territory 2. How to use this book 3. Workshop one: Getting started 4. Workshop two: Memory and other sources 5. Workshop three Bringing it to life - Detail 6. Workshop four: Bringing it to life - Scenes 7. Workshop five Finding your voice 8. Workshop six: Structure 9. Workshop seven: Inventing the Story - Narrative 10. Workshop eight: Style matters and editing Part II: Masterclasses 11. Workshop nine: Midway blues - Continuing on 12. Workshop ten: Madeleines and unicorns - Sensory detail 13. Workshop eleven: Research 14. Workshop twelve: The storyteller's seat - Narrating position 15. Workshop thirteen: Beauty of form - More structure 16. Workshop fourteen: Magic spells - More narrative 17. Workshop fifteen: Private! Diaries, journals, notebooks, letters, emails 18. Workshop sixteen: Creative nonfiction - Crime, journalism, nature, history, biography 19. Workshop seventeen: Creative nonfiction - The personal essay 20. Workshop eighteen: Creative nonfiction - Travel memoir 21. Workshop nineteen: Creative nonfiction - Borderlands: is it true? 22. Workshop twenty: Difficulties and ethics of truth-telling 23. Workshop twenty-one: Avoiding self-indulgence 24. Where to now? Publishing
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