In Breaking Ground on Your Memoir, Linda Joy Myers (President of the National Association of Memoir Writers) and Brooke Warner (Publisher of She Writes Press) present from the ground up―from basic to advanced―the craft and skills memoirists can draw upon to write a powerful and moving story, as well as inspiration to write, finish, and polish their own story.
Full of rich insights and practical advice and strategies, Breaking Ground on Your Memoir offers all the tools writers need to write a powerful, publishable memoir.
In this book you will discover:
• how to get focused on what your memoir is about―your themes.
• how to build the structure of your story.
• techniques to make your memoir come alive.
• the secrets of craft: how to write a great scene, colorful and memorable descriptions, narration, and flashback.
• how to connect with your reader using through-threads and takeaway so they’ll keep turning the pages, and learn something about their own lives by reading your book.
Visit the authors online at WriteYourMemoirInSixMonths.com.
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- Breaking Ground on Your Memoir Craft Inspiration and Motivation for Memoir Writers
I recommend this book highly This book is incredible. I have been feeling stuck attempting to write “memoir.” This book provides an incredible writer’s road-map with concrete examples that make sense! The memoirs cited by the authors as specific examples of certain writing techniques are so helpful. I recommend this book highly; it’s the best ‘how to write your memoir’ style book out there!
I now have solid hope that the longest memoir work-in-progress WILL be finished.. and published! Regardless of how long you’ve been trying to write your story, if you are carrying a story inside you that is begging to be told, I hope you don’t give up. Thanks to Brooke and Linda Joy, I am well on my way to making my memoir a published reality. And I have been trying to write my harrowing tale of extreme survival since 1975…. 42 years ago!I had almost given up hope of ever finishing my memoir. But my attitude has completely changed since I purchased Breaking Ground on Your…
This book will take you to a completed manuscript if you listen and follow I am happy to review this book as it took me beyond a troubling impasse in my memoir writing. I read Brooke’s first book and found a general foundation for my book. But this book took me to where I really believed I had a story to tell. I had discovered for myself that the drafts are like layers, each zeroing in more and more to the story. Brooke and Linda beautifully confirmed that for me. The most helpful part of the book for me were the chapters about including flashbacks, narration,…