| Description |
xi, 223 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Getting started on your lifewriting adventure -- Using a daybook to hoard your treasure trove of memories and reflections -- Digging for information -- Transforming raw data into lifewriting -- Organizing techniques I: working up an outline -- Organizing techniques II: writing the treatment -- Drafting I: wield -- Ing opening magic -- Drafting II: bodybuilding -- Drafting III: calling it a wrap -- Revision: the fine art of re-seeing your first draft -- Writing a personal-experience feature -- Writing portraits and self-portraits -- Copyediting for style I -- Copyediting for style II -- Selling your lifewriting to newspapers, literary -- Journals, and magazines -- "I could write a book": here's how -- Anatomy of an essay. |
| Subject |
Feature writing.
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Autobiography -- Authorship.
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| ISBN |
1884956335 |
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