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Writing and Selling Memoirs and Personal Essays
Writing and Selling Memoirs and Personal Essays
The local bookstore is full of memoirs and personal essays on every subject these days. How can you give your story an edge? This collection contains a diverse set of tools you need to write and sell your memoirs and personal essays. Learn how to keep your reader's interest with compelling true stories and characters. Plus, you'll discover tips and tricks to pitching your script to editors and agents. Brimming with helpful examples and exercises, this collection can guide you to success.
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Crafting the Personal Essay
Crafting the Personal Essay
Book

Crafting the Personal Essay is designed to help you explore the flexibility and power of the personal essay in your own writing. This hands-on, creativity-expanding guide will help you infuse your nonfiction with honesty, personality, and energy.
Writing Your Legacy
Writing Your Legacy
Book

This book provides step-by-step instructions to help your readers determine what path they are on and how to get to the final page. With this comprehensive instruction, you'll be invigorated by the process of capturing memories, structuring your story, finding the right voice and more.
Writing Life Stories
Writing Life Stories
Book

In this 10 anniversary edition Learn techniques for recalling memories, access emotions, shape scenes from experience, develop characters, and more. This is your time to turn untold life stories into personal essays or even a published book.
Writing Creative Nonfiction
Writing Creative Nonfiction
Book

Over thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection. Through insightful prompts and exercises, these contributors help make the challenge of writing creative nonfiction-whether biography, true-life adventure, memoir, or narrative history-a welcome, rewarding endeavor.
The Truth of Memoir
The Truth of Memoir
Book

The first book of its kind tackle the popular but infrequently discussed topic of writing about others in memoir. This book contains insight, advice and recounts from thirty memoirists on the topic of writing about others, from family members and friends to ex-lovers and children.
Writing a Publishable Memoir: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Writing a Publishable Memoir: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
OnDemand Webinar

In this presentation, Ivory Madison helps you develop your own roadmap to write, edit, and market your memoir. No matter what stage your memoir is at, this presentation not only provides you with the tools to transform your idea into a successful book, it also offers the encouragement you need to follow through.
Writing the Memoir Tutorial: Part 1
Writing the Memoir Tutorial: Part 1
Tutorial

After addressing key questions such as "Why Write a Memoir?" and "What Are the Rules?" this tutorial helps you identify your own "Call to Adventure," "Approach to the Inmost Cave," and "Return With the Elixir."
Writing the Memoir Tutorial: Part 2
Writing the Memoir Tutorial: Part 2
Tutorial

When you write a memoir, you are in effect writing your own hero's journey, because you are the hero of your own life. In this tutorial, veteran editor and author Paula Munier (creator of the Cup of Comfort series) demonstrates how to use fictional techniques inherent in the three-act hero's journey as the basis for your life story.
You Should Really Write a Memoir: How to Write, Sell, and Market Your Memoir Video Download
You Should Really Write a Memoir: How to Write, Sell, and Market Your Memoir Video Download
OnDemand Webinar

If you've ever been told that "you should really write a book" and you've decide to give it a try --is presentation is for you! Instructor and literary agent Regina Brooks hones in on the three key measures necessary for aspiring authors to conceptualize and pitch their memoir to an agent or editor.
Writing and Selling Your Memoir: 2012 Writer's Digest Conference Session
Writing and Selling Your Memoir: 2012 Writer's Digest Conference Session
Audio Download

Writing memoir isn't as simple as telling your personal story. It's about carefully crafting a selected piece of your history using a well-honed voice, an appropriate structure. In this webinar we will talk about simple steps you can take to be a more productive writer.
Write a Memoir That Sells: How to Use Voice, Structure and Platform to Draw Readers to Your Story OnDemand Webinar
Write a Memoir That Sells: How to Use Voice, Structure and Platform to Draw Readers to Your Story OnDemand Webinar
OnDemand Webinar

How can you give your memoir that extra edge that makes agents want to represent it, editors want to buy it - and most importantly - get audiences clamoring to read it? Learn which important elements of your life story readers will expect to see.
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