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The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: What Is TRUTH?
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Tips, guidelines and insights on all facets of life writing. Writing for the Health of It. Nine years ago as I pulled together the material that became. The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing. I thought I knew the answer to that question, what is truth: It's what really happened, or what you really think. It's basic honesty, plain and simple. Everybody knows that, right? Perception is personal and situational. A bomb exploded in my self-absorbed brain. Could my hair be that bad? Mayhem at Camp RYLA.
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The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: Clear the Haze from Pictures and Memory
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Tips, guidelines and insights on all facets of life writing. Writing for the Health of It. Clear the Haze from Pictures and Memory. The pictures above have deep meaning for me, and I think they are likely to strike a chord with most viewers, evoking memories of their own. I want my stories to have that effect. I want readers to see themselves in my words, finding new ways to see old situations and become more fully themselves. I used an ancient version of Photoshop for this, but Paint.net does almost...
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The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: Guest Post Guidelines
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Tips, guidelines and insights on all facets of life writing. Writing for the Health of It. I feature only INVITED. Guest posts by memoir authors and noted experts in the life writing field. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). The Tree of Life Writing summarizes the range of content covered on this blog. Click here. To learn more about it. Sign up for Email Updates:. Add feed to reader. Ten Years of Posts. Ten Years of Posts. Jul 2016 ( 2 ). Jun 2016 ( 1 ). May 2016 ( 3 ). Apr 2016 ( 3 ). Mar 2016 ( 1 ). Jul 20...
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The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: Stories
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Tips, guidelines and insights on all facets of life writing. Writing for the Health of It. This page has links to stories I've written that I want to share with the world. The first group, Ritergal's Stories, has been posted one place or another on the web since 2000. This is their latest home. They are among the earliest stories I wrote. Ritergal, as you may already know, is the webname I adopted in 2000 when I put together my first website. Read about that here. 9472; Ritergal learns an important lesson.
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The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: Books
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Tips, guidelines and insights on all facets of life writing. Writing for the Health of It. Humorous account of onging adventures with mouth-searing chile. Includes 22 recipes. Print and Kindle versions available from Amazon. Fresh overview of the challenging topic of description. Available from Amazon. World- wide in print and for Kindle. Comprehensive guide to writing your lifestory, from planning to finished copy. Available in print from Amazon. Memoir of life as a preschooler. Free pdf download. Mar 2...
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The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: Ritergal’s Birthday
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Tips, guidelines and insights on all facets of life writing. Writing for the Health of It. Heavens to Betsy, today is Ritergal’s birthday, and I just realized she is a teenager, In fact, she has been a teenager for a couple of years. That could explain a lot of things, but I won’t go into that. In honor of her birthday, she’s my guest today, sharing her flash memoir, previously unread and unedited by me:. That woman, the one whose fingers I’m using, thinks I’m only fifteen, and she thinks s. Sages that w...
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The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: The Tree of Life Writing
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Tips, guidelines and insights on all facets of life writing. Writing for the Health of It. The Tree of Life Writing. The Tree of Life Writing. Since a picture is worth 1000 words, the picture above should represent about three blog posts worth of insight. I first recognized the interrelationships among the various aspects of life writing over a year ago and included a simpler graphic with a post, The Life Writing Progression. On July 5, 2009. The longer I think about this tree and the organic wholeness o...
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The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: I Want My Grandchildren to Know I Wasn’t Always Old
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Tips, guidelines and insights on all facets of life writing. Writing for the Health of It. I Want My Grandchildren to Know I Wasn’t Always Old. I watched as an old woman entered the room, leaning heavily on her cane. Although each step seemed to be a huge effort, her sagging figure was elegantly dressed, and her face, a road map of wrinkles, tastefully made up. She sat heavily in a seat near the door, in the front row, not far from where I stood, waiting to present a book talk about. All kids have both f...
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The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: Monkeys, Jackasses and Wispy Mist
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Tips, guidelines and insights on all facets of life writing. Writing for the Health of It. Monkeys, Jackasses and Wispy Mist. In her blog post, “ Jackasses and Monkeys – Inner demons of writing. 8221; Carol Bodensteiner reveals that her inner writing demons take the form of monkeys. She expresses relief on learning that others, such as Kimberly Brock, have similar problems. In my opinion, Kimberly’s challenge is worse. She is beset by Jackasses. Look this up NOW! Talk to them –. Ask them for their advice...
