Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1569244685 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Next he details his 13-year career at the New York Herald Tribune, where he wrote drama and movie features. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . He begins with impressionistic sketches of his WWII experiences as a young army private in North Africa and Italy. Zinsser is warmly appreciative of other well-known memoirists and their organizational methods, admiring in particular Thoreau, Frank McCourt, Mary Karr and Annie Dillard. Finally Zinsser brings us up-to-date with his recent rebirth as a public pianist. He draws humoro
He also recalls a lifetime of exotic travels through Africa, Asia and the South Seas, evoking a gallery of memorable people—a dance teacher in Bali, a French explorer in Tahiti, a Vietnamese poet in Hanoi—whose stories moved him with their power. They are the same decisions you’ll have to make as you write about your own life: matters of selection, condensation, focus, attitude, voice and tone. It’s a journey full of surprising turns. It also gives you permission—through the example of a life enriched by change and risk—to make bold life choices of your own.. This highly original book by William Zinsser, author of the classic guide On Writing Well, tells you how to write about the people and places and events in your life that have been important to you—whether you’re writing a memoir, a family history or just a recollection of experiences you’d like to preserve or more fully understand. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own: 13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, amusing and often inspiring moments in his long and unusually varied life as a writer, editor, teacher and traveler. Will
One of the Best Books on Memoir writing: That's the TRUTH! I have read many books about how to write memoir, or how to write about yourself. The answer is given in this highly readable book.Read this book, and if what you have in mind is to write about your life, the answer is simple, Write about what you know about your life. Don't write any old thing or about it all from the time you were born until the time you think you have figured out how it will all probably end. Write instead about those ever memorable events in your lifetime to date that taught you a valuable lesson or made you more hu. Master Teacher In Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past, William Zinsser uses the main technique of the master teacher: he demonstrates what he is trying to teach. In the first of a series of mini-memoirs from his own life Zinsser tells the story of a phone message left on his answering machine from a woman who has a question about a paint primer that Zinsser's father had manufactured years before. In referring to an article he wrote about the message and the phone call that followed, the author shows how the work dealt with a number of the. "Three Stars" according to Buddhadoc. Interesting
WILLIAM ZINSSER is a writer, editor, teacher and musician. His musical revue about a summer community, What’s the Point?, was produced off Broadway in 2003. During the 1970s he taught writing at Yale, where he was master of Branford College. . His 17 books, in addition to On Writing Well, include Writing to Learn, American Places, Mitchell & Ruff: An Ame