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Author(s): Sue William Silverman
ISBN(s): 9780820331669, 082033166X
Edition: Kindle
File Details: PDF, 1.58 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 082033166X 

ISBN 13: 9780820331669

Author: Sue William Silverman

Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper―or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and will be useful to both beginners and more accomplished writers.

The rise of interest in memoir recognizes the power of the genre to move and affect not just individual readers but society at large. Sue William Silverman covers traditional writing topics such as metaphor, theme, plot, and voice and also includes chapters on trusting memory and cultivating the courage to tell one’s truth in the face of forces―from family members to the media―who would prefer that people with inconvenient pasts and views remain silent.

Silverman, an award-winning memoirist, draws upon her own personal and professional experience to provide an essential resource for transforming life into words that matter. Fearless Confessions is an atlas that contains maps to the remarkable places in each person’s life that have yet to be explored.

Table of contents: 

The Longest Paragraph, 1
Writing Exercises

two
Savory Words: The First Bite of Your Story, 10
Don’t Just State Your Story — Reveal Your Story | Move Readers
with Active Words | Following a Sensory Trail | Writing
Exercises | A Note on Genre
For Your Reading Pleasure:
“Candy Cigarettes,” by Anne Panning, 21

three
Writing on Key: A Few Notes about Theme, 23
False Starts | Starting True | The Colors We Choose | Writing Exercises
For Your Reading Pleasure:
“Rob Me Again,” by Katherine Jamieson, 32

four
Plotting Your Life, 35
Finding the Arc of Your Story | Motivating Your Plot |
Thunderous Plots | The Structure of Plot | Crossing the Finish Line |
Turning Real Life into Art | Writing Exercises
For Your Reading Pleasure:
“Scavengers,” by Katy Read, 47

five
Between Innocence and Experience: Finding Your Voice(s), 50
Using Multiple Voices | Your Everyday Voice and Your
Literary Voice | Guiding Voices | Writing Exercises
For Your Reading Pleasure:
“The Visit,” by Candance L. Greene, 66

six
Mock Moons and Metaphor: Crafting Memoir into Art, 68
Finding Your Metaphors | The Metaphoric Memoir |
Metaphor: A Window onto the World | Writing Exercise
For Your Reading Pleasure:
“Tetanus, You Understand?” by Ellen Morris Prewitt, 79

seven
Writing in Style, 83
Your Story, Your Style | The Muscular Sentence | More Than
Just And | Not To Be | Dialogue in Memoir | Past or Present Tense? |
These Boots Are Made for Writing | Writing Exercise
For Your Reading Pleasure:
“The Man behind the Shower Curtain,” by Julie Mullany, 97

eight
Marketing Your Memoir, 98
Getting Started | Publishing Outlets: Pros and Cons of Each |
How to Decide What’s Best for Your Book | Promoting Yourself
as a Professional Speaker | Web Opportunities for Your Memoir |
The Importance of All Our Voices | Writing Exercises

nine
Confessional and (Finally) Proud of It, 112
Western Civilization in an Eggshell | One Secret, One Word, at a Time |
Word by Word | The Courage to Show This to Your Mother (Penance
Optional) | Truth and Memory in Memoir | What Readers Understand
about Memoirs | What the Media Doesn’t Understand about
Confessional Stories | A Hysterical [sic] History
of Criticism | Writing Exercises

Appendix one
The Meandering River:
An Overview of the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction, 143
Port of Call 1: Biography | Port of Call 2: Autobiography | Port of Call 3:
Immersion | Port of Call 4: Memoir | Port of Call 5: Personal Essay |
Port of Call 6: Meditative Essay | Port of Call 7: Lyric Essay |
Toward the Sea | Waters Ebb and Flow

Appendix two
Three Confessional Essays, 158
“From Process to Product: Using Print-on-Demand to Publish,”
by Lynn C. Tolson, 158
“Gazing: Writing from the Womb,” by Karen Salyer McElmurray, 163
“The Weight of a Word,” by Michelle Otero, 169

Appendix three
For Your Reading Pleasure: Four Full-Length Essays, 174
“Independence Day, Manley Hot Springs, Alaska,” by Lisa D. Chavez, 175
“After the Dash,” by Michael Hemery, 183
“The Beautiful City of Tirzah,” by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, 189
“The Pat Boone Fan Club,” by Sue William Silverman, 201

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