Patti Miller

Writing True Stories (eBook, ePUB)

The complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Writing True Stories is the essential book for anyone who has ever wanted to write a memoir or explore the wider territory of creative nonfiction. It provides practical guidance and inspiration on a vast array of writing topics, including how to access memories, find a narrative voice, build a vivid world on the page, create structure, use research-and face the difficulties of truth-telling.

This book introduces and develops key writing skills, and then challenges more experienced writers to extend their knowledge and practice of the genre into literary nonfiction, true crime, biography, the personal essay, and travel and sojourn writing. Whether you want to write your own autobiography, investigate a wide-ranging political issue or bring to life an intriguing history, this book will be your guide.

Writing True Stories is practical and easy to use as well as an encouraging and insightful companion on the writing journey. Written in a warm, clear and engaging style, it will get you started on the story you want to write-and keep you going until you reach the end.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000938548
• Artikelnr.: 67845492

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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