LifeWriting: Drawing from Personal Experience to Create Features You Can PublishLife writing is people-centered nonfiction writing. Not just autobiographical or biographical, life writing encompasses a broad range of personal-experience narratives. Life writing can be serious or humorous or both. It can include any kind of subject matter because people are always at the heart of any endeavor. Fred D. White, Ph.D., author of four textbooks on writing, walks the reader through the life writing process from research to composition to revision to marketing. |
Contents
Introduction ix | 1 |
Getting Started on Your Lifewriting Adventure | 5 |
Using a Daybook to Hoard Your Treasure Trove of Memories and Reflections | 19 |
Digging for Information | 35 |
Transforming Raw Data into Lifewriting Key Techniques to Master | 45 |
Organizing Techniques I Working Up an Outline | 57 |
Organizing Techniques II Writing the Treatment | 65 |
Drafting I Wielding Opening Magic | 73 |
Writing a PersonalExperience Feature | 119 |
Writing Portraits and SelfPortraits | 129 |
Copyediting for Style I Strengthening | 139 |
Copyediting for Style II Choosing Words Wisely | 149 |
Selling Your Lifewriting to Newspapers Literary | 165 |
I Could Write a Book Heres How | 179 |
Anatomy of an Essay Joan Didions | 195 |
Recommended Reading for Lifewriters | 203 |
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