I need help. I hope to give a program in early March on the writing of memoirs. Does anyone have a suggestion for a source other than what I have. My favorite is Tristine Rainer's Your Life As Story. She advocates what she calls The New Autobiography. She means by that the livening of our autobiographies by using "fiction techniques." In other words, arranging the events, feelings and meanings of your life into dramatic story. She says story is "what you wanted, how you struggled and what you realized out of that struggle."
Does anyone have any other usable sources?
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Jim,
This is not a source, but an idea.
When Ann's mother died, she had the recipe boxes from her step-grandmother, aunt, and several others in the family along with her own.
We took those and made a family cookbook. Had it printed on Lulu, a print on demand publisher where you just buy whatever books you want. We used spiral binding.
This Christmas we gave the cookbooks to Ann's brothers and others in the family. The books were very well received.
We did all the layout work, etc., ourselves, but the printed books (spiral bound to lay open to each recipe) cost about ten dollars apiece. There was no other cost except time.
The same could be done with family histories except they might be hardbound. As I understand it, the MU bookstore also does print on demand books now. I'm not sure about that. It should be checked.
Jim,
Another idea.
Today's KC Star has six-word autobiographies. Examples:
"He: nursing home. Me: home alone."
"Just turned 18; nothing different yet."
"Last child cares for whole family!"
Writing such might be good starters for longer deeper writing. --Joe.
Yeah, those are fun to play with. Who was it that invented those, Hemingway? Not sure. It goes like this. Baby shoes. For sale. Never used.
I heard another one the other day that is good, but requires the use of a four letter word. Yearned for him. Got him. S---T.
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