Writing Your Life: A Journey of Discovery
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This book explores the adventure of writing your life story.
Everyone can write a life story. If you have dreamed by childhood creeks, played in a dusty schoolyard, watched the sun rise after a partner has died, or lived through any of life's twists and turns, then you have a life story to write. Writing Your Life shows you how.
This book is also about the psychological and spiritual journey of writing the self. The journey is one of discovery, and this book is a kind of map on the terrain. Writing Your Life shows you the skills you'll need to undertake the journey. In writing your life, you reveal and create its meaning.
Writing Your Life provides techniques for getting started, handling point of view, making the pieces hang together and bringing events to life. It also explores issues such as selective memory, emotional pain and growth, objections from other family members, how to communicate your philosophic and spiritual truths without cliche and the challenges of sorting through the raw material of your own life.
Writing Your Life is an inspiration - through the techniques of self-understanding and writing which it offers, through extracts from other ordinary and extraordinary life stories and through Patti Miller's beautiful prose.
Author: Patti Miller
Format: Paperback, 208 pages, 130mm x 195mm
Published: 1994, Allen & Unwin, Australia
Genre: Usage & Writing Guides
This book explores the adventure of writing your life story.
Everyone can write a life story. If you have dreamed by childhood creeks, played in a dusty schoolyard, watched the sun rise after a partner has died, or lived through any of life's twists and turns, then you have a life story to write. Writing Your Life shows you how.
This book is also about the psychological and spiritual journey of writing the self. The journey is one of discovery, and this book is a kind of map on the terrain. Writing Your Life shows you the skills you'll need to undertake the journey. In writing your life, you reveal and create its meaning.
Writing Your Life provides techniques for getting started, handling point of view, making the pieces hang together and bringing events to life. It also explores issues such as selective memory, emotional pain and growth, objections from other family members, how to communicate your philosophic and spiritual truths without cliche and the challenges of sorting through the raw material of your own life.
Writing Your Life is an inspiration - through the techniques of self-understanding and writing which it offers, through extracts from other ordinary and extraordinary life stories and through Patti Miller's beautiful prose.