The memoir project
Subtitle: a thoroughly non-standardized text for writing--and life
By: Marion Roach Smith
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grand Central Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780446584845
Subjects: Autobiography; Handbooks, manuals; Authorship
Description: "The essential, eccentric guidebook for anyone wanting to write a memoir"--Provided by the publisher.
Table of contents: title: You must be present to win : pay attention! : which details you include will determine the success of your memoir; title: Galileo in Walmart : don't let all the "stuff" of life's overcrowded aisles distract you; focus that lens to sharpen your tale; title: Having sex with Roger : get a firm grip on that first draft with your eyes open, the lights on, and a notebook by the bed; title: The Barbie-bodied book : your writing math must add up to a figure so compelling the reader can't take his eyes off your argument; title: Life in the morgue : editing is the perfect murder, though the darlings you kill can live to see another day.