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Your Life Writing Guide
Your Life, An Introductory Guide to Writing Life Stories
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Your Life, An Introductory Guide To Writing Life Stories will give you invaluable advice about memoir writing. It is aimed at the enthusiastic hobbyist rather than the professional writer. The book takes you through the different stages of gathering material such as letters and photographs, writing and editing a manuscript, and then suggests various ways in which your book could be presented, for example, as a paperback or as a handsome, leather-bound volume.
Your Life is written in clear, straightforward language and is illustrated with many colour photographs. Perhaps the book would make a good present for an interesting member of your family or a friend who has recently retired.
Reading Your Life could be your first step to to creating a permanent family record.
Chapter 1 Why Do You Want to Write a Life Story?
Leaving a legacy, as catharsis, as a present, collective memoirs, a pictorial record, a contemporary memoir
Chapter 2 Your Audience
Family, friends and your local community
Chapter 3 Collect Your Source Material
Letters, diaries, photographs, school reports, the internet
Chapter 4 Setting Out a Structure
Chronological, big bang, thematic, diary, external events, benefits
Chapter 5 Starting to Write
Style, tools, how to start, do's and don'ts, ghostwriters
Chapter 6 Writing as a Routine
Length, appearance, setbacks, losing motivation, difficult subjects
Chapter 7 More Techniques
Quotes, speech, visual breaks, chapter headings, introduction, dedication, family tree, appendixes
Chapter 8 Collective Memoirs
Marking the anniversary of a group of people
Chapter 9 Editing Your Manuscript
Style, content, shape
Chapter 10 A Good-Looking Book
Formats, covers, paper, text, pictures, captions, pictorial record
Chapter 11 Publishing and Printing Options
Printing, binding, self-publishing, cost, number of copies
Chapter 12 Should I Sell My Book?
ISBN number, audiences, price.
THE AUTHOR
Anna Foster was a journalist for over 20 years. She edited Management Today magazine and was business editor of The European newspaper. She worked as a freelance journalist for The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent newspapers.
Since 2003 she has run You By You Books. Anna lives in Biddenden, Kent, with her husband and children.
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Your Life costs £5, plus £1.50 p&p
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