Writing life stories
Subtitle: how to make memories into memoirs, ideas into essays, and life into literature
By: by Bill Roorbach with Kristen Keckler.
Contributors: Keckler, Kristen.
Edition: 10th anniversary ed.
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cincinnati OH
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781582975276
Subjects: Autobiography -- Authorship; Report writing
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Getting started; title: Memory; title: Scenemaking; title: Big ideas; title: Characters and character; title: Stage presence; title: Finding the facts; title: Metaphor and meaning; title: Saying it right; title: Building a building; title: Getting published; title: Appendix A : "Into woods" and commentary / by Bill Roorbach; title: Appendix B : "The olive jar" and commentary / by Kristen Keckler; title: Appendix C : "on apprenticeship" and commentary / by Bill Roorbach; title: Appendix D : suggested readings in creative nonfiction.