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How to Write Your Own Life Story: The Classic Guide for the Nonprofessional Writer
by Lois Daniel
Chicago Review Press, Chicago, Illinois
ISBN 13: 978-1-55652-318-2
Writing the story of one's life sounds like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. This warmhearted, encouraging guide helps readers record the events of their lives for family and friends. Excerpts from other writers' work are included to exemplify and inspire. Provided are tips on intriguing topics to write about, foolproof tricks to jog your memory, ways to capture stories on paper without getting bogged down, ways to gather the facts at a local library or historical society, inspired excerpts from other writers, and published biographies that will delight and motivate.
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You Don't Have to Be Famous: How to Write
Your Life Story
by Steve Zousmer
Writer's Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio
ISBN 978-1-58297-439-5 (paper)
Writing your life story is a valuable and worthy thing to do, regardless of whether the author's goal is publication or simply recording memories for her family. You Don't Have to Be Famous gives readers the tools they need to give their work a degree of quality and discipline.
Accessible, friendly, and reader-focused, this book isn't about writing Literature. It's focused on helping anyone record their life story using a step-by-step program. So many hobbies and self-improvement programs can fall by the wayside in just a few weeks. With You Don't Have to Be Famous, anyone who is serious about capturing their memories, even those who have never attempted a writing project before, can complete a manuscript of which they can be proud.
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 Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories
by Daniel Taylor
Bog Walk Press, St. Paul, Minnesota
ISBN 0-9706511-0-4
You are your stories. You are the product of all the stories you have heard and live, and of many you have never heard. They have shaped how you see yourself, the world, and your place in it. Your first great storytellers were home, school, popular culture, and church. Knowing and embracing healthy stories are curcial to living rightly and well. If your present life story is broken or diseased, it can be made well. Or if necessary, it can be replaced by a story that has a plot worth living.
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 Writing Life Stories
by Bill Roorbach
Story Press, Cincinnati, Ohio
ISBN 1-884910-47-5
Publication isn't, I know, the real goal of everyone reading this book. Some of you just want to get your stories down for your grandchildren to read, and for their children, a noble ambition. Documents like that are priceless in families.
Some of you just want to get your story right for yourself. And that is noble, too. In the end, this is just what Janet Bellweather realized: Her writing was meant for her own edification; she didn't really need or want an audience of readers.
Some of you, like Janet, are going to be content with writing as a hobby. And that's good, an important fact to know about yourselves. If you wake up one day and realize that writing for you is a hobby and not more, that's okay. No dishonor. Writing something good is very much harder than it looks. And writing makes a good hobby, especially if you have an audience of family and friends. Enjoy!
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 Writing About Your Life is a journey full of surprising turns. Bill Zinsser recalls his school days and influential teachers, his World War II army days in North Africa and Italy, his newspaper days with the legendary New York Herald Tribune, his teaching days at Yale, his role in a Woody Allen movie, his years as a baseball addict and his late-in-life career playing jazz piano. He also recalls a lifetime of exotic travels through Africa, Asia and the South Seas, evoking a gallery of memorable people, a dance teacher in Bali, a French explorer in Tahiti, and a Vietnamese poet in Hanoi whose stories moved him with their power.
All along the way in these memoirs Zinsser pauses to explain the technical decisions he made as he wrote them. They are the same decisions you'll have to make as you write about your life: matters of selection, condensation, focus, attitude, voice and tone.
This book will give you the tools to organize and recover your past and the confidence to believe in your life narrative.
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 Author Bernard Selling believes that telling your life stories can be a voyage of self-discovery, freeing up images and memories that have long remained hidden. Using the techniques in this book, anyone can create vivid autobiographical stories and life narratives.
Whether you are a new or experienced writer, write at home, in a classroom with a writing group, the ideas and techniques in this book will show you how to:
Deal with your inner critic,
Recall childhod events and important life experiences,
Find your authentic writing voice,
Use techniques such as narrative, dialogue, and inner monologue to bring your stories to life.
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MOM, DOES GOD KNOW WE'RE IN WYOMING? by C. Ellen Watts
 Take it from a mom who has been there: five kids, 20 moves, and a husband whose job requires travel, leaves a mother with scant time to think about growing in grace, barf Pepto Bismol, lead goats into her kitchen, spray paint the baby, and you will find a mom who seeks spiritual nourishment in a bedtime Bible story and prays while rinsing dust off a fantail fished from a hot air register.
Bubbling with humor, this book draws on a rich variety of first-person experiences to show God's grace at work in the midst of one moms busyness. With wit and candor C. Ellen Watts reminds us in a collection of unforgettable stories that a multi-task God understands more about motherhood than we who claim the distinction.
Throughout times when she was too busy to look, God was there, teaching through circumstances and other people, and with audacious creativity through her own children.
Email C. Ellen Watts for your copy at $15.00 which includes postage and handling.
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