The Arvon Book Of Life Writing

Author : Sally Cline
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408198800
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arvon Book of Life Writing written by Sally Cline and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating, wide-ranging, hugely knowledgeable - an indispensable guide and a beguiling education William Boyd Packed with insights and advice - just the inspiration to start writing! Jenny Uglow Everyone has a story This book shows how the best writers tell them, and offers advice on how to tell them yourself. Biographers Sally Cline and Carole Angier teach life writing - an area of creative writing that is exploding in popularity - at the world-famous Arvon Foundation. They have distilled the essence of their popular course on memoir, autobiography and biography into this wide-ranging book. The Arvon Book of Life Writing offers three fascinating ways into the genre. First, reflections on their trade by the authors, exploring its special challenges: truth, memory, ethics, evidence and interpretation. Second, personal tips and tales from 32 top British and American life writers - autobiographers and memoirists, literary, sports and celebrity biographers; plus a critic, an agent, a literary editor, two novelists, and a ghost writer. Third, a practical guide, complete with exercises, designed for use in creative writing courses or by individual writers at home. No other book contains such detailed, witty and professional advice on the genre.

Author : Carole Angier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arvon Book of Life Writing written by Carole Angier and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirst for real-life stories, is an area of creative non-fiction that is exploding in popularity. Biographers' Sally Cline and Carole Angier teach at the world famous Arvon Foundation writing course and have distilled the essence of their course into this practical handbook with contributions from leading writers.

Author : Sally Cline
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408124181
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arvon Book of Life Writing written by Sally Cline and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for anyone interested in writing biography or memoir, with practical advice from successful biographers and creative writing teachers.

Author : Sally Cline
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408131234
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction written by Sally Cline and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professional guide to the rapidly evolving genre of literary non-fiction written by tutors from the prestigious Arvon Foundation course and with contributions from leading writers.

Author : Michelle Spring
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472523938
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime and Thriller Writing written by Michelle Spring and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including advice from bestselling writers, this is a complete guide to writing crime novels, from research and planning to getting published.

Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198704062
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Life-writing written by Zachary Leader and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing, bringing together eminent scholars and writers to reflect on specific examples of life-writing to reflect broader themes within the genre.

Author : Elise Valmorbida
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399613588
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Happy Writing Book written by Elise Valmorbida and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There are many guides to good writing but none as valuable as this.' Oliver Kamm, author and columnist for The Times Creative writing can enhance wellbeing, which can enhance creative writing, which can enhance wellbeing ... Become a better writer with over 100 inspiring prompts, insights and exercises specially devised by an award-winning author and creative writing teacher. Discover how the practice of creative writing - being expressive, exploring ideas, crafting words, shaping stories - can also deepen your appreciation of life.

Author : Cathy Rentzenbrink
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529056233
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Write It All Down written by Cathy Rentzenbrink and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackle the challenges of memoir writing and share your story. 'Cathy is the person who first told me to write about my mental health when I was nervous to do so. She is a great writer herself and this is brilliant.' - Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive Why do we want to write and what stops us? How do we fight the worry that no-one will care what we have to say? What can we do to overcome the obstacles in our way? Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shows you how to tackle all this and more in Write It All Down, a guide to putting your life on the page. Complete with a compendium of advice from amazing writers such as Dolly Alderton, Adam Kay and Candice Carty-Williams, this book is here to help you discover the pleasure and solace to be found in writing; the profound satisfaction of wrestling a story onto a page and seeing the events of your life transformed through the experience of writing a memoir. Perfect for seasoned writers as well as writing amateurs and everyone in between, this helpful handbook will steer you through the philosophical and practical challenges of writing, whether you're struggling with writers block or worrying what people will say. Intertwined with reflections and exercises, Write It All Down is at once an intimate conversation and an invitation to share your story.

Author : Tanya M. Caldwell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684482283
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century written by Tanya M. Caldwell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material “from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,” each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D’Arblay’s son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney’s realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000088103
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Life Writing written by Paul John Eakin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing. The first section, "Narrative," argues that narrative is not only a literary form but also a social and cultural practice, and finally a mode of cognition and an expression of our most basic physiology. The next section, "Life Writing: Historical Forms," makes the case for the historical value of the subjectivity recorded in ego-documents. The essays in the final section, "Autobiography Now," identify primary motives for engaging in self-narration in an age characterized by digital media and quantum cosmology.