Whether your impulse is for personal and private revelation or ultimately for public consumption, detecting the arc of your personal story can be a rewarding experience. Rainer also offers up a historical banquet of autobiographical writing from contemporary writers that include Maya Angelou, Russell Baker, and Carolyn See to the early Egyptian inscriptions. Have our ideas about who writes autobiographies changed? Although Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography remains in print and is given new life each and every generation, Rainer’s position is that everyone’s life has a story and a unique meaning. The problem is that most of us don’t know where to begin.
Your Life as Story is a thoughtful discussion on the subject of memoirs and provides a useful guide complete with exercises designed to detect life’s stories. Rainer’s unique combination of skills and knowledge culled from a lifelong passion of storytelling whether in fiction, nonfiction, or film inform the storytelling principles that permeate every page. This book lives on my reference shelf within easy reach—even today, eight years after my initial reading—and continues to fulfill its promise.
--vikk, Down the Writer's Path
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1 - Tom
How can I get my published books into your blogs?
Retirement Riches in the Pacific, Star Wars in the Pacific, My Life Story, by Tom M. A Recovering Alcoholic-published by publish American and by Authorhouse
Thanks, tom