Patti Miller: Writing True Stories

Cover: 9781760293086 | Writing True Stories | Patti Miller | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2017

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Beschreibung

The complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction.

Über den Autor

Patti Miller is an award-winning memoirist and nonfiction writer, whose 2012 book, The Mind of a Thief, was longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Nita Kibble Prize, shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize for Non-Fiction, winner of the NSW Premier's Prize for History and on the syllabus for English for the VCE in Victoria. Since then she has released Ransacking Paris, 2015, and The Joy of High Places, 2019, to critical acclaim. Her two previous writing books, Writing Your Life and The Memoir Book, have been continually in print since publication. Patti is a highly successful life-writing teacher and mentor who offers courses at the Faber Academy, as well as many other writing centres around Australia and in Paris and London. Her tenth book, True Friends, will be released in April 2022.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue, Part One: Starting Out, 1. Exploring the territory, 2. How to use this book, 3. Workshop One: Getting started, 4. Workshop Two: Memory and other sources, 5. Workshop Three: Bringing it to life - Detail, 6. Workshop Four: Bringing it to life - Scenes, 7. Workshop Five: Finding your voice, 8. Workshop Six: Structure, 9. Workshop Seven: Inventing the story - Narrative, 10. Workshop Eight: Style matters and editing, Part Two: Masterclasses, 11. Workshop Nine: Midway blues - Continuing on, 12. Workshop Ten: Madeleines and unicorns - Sensory detail, 13. Workshop Eleven: Research, 14. Workshop Twelve: The storyteller's seat - Narrating position, 15. Workshop Thirteen: Beauty of form - More structure, 16. Workshop Fourteen: The magic spell - More narrative, 17. Workshop Fifteen: Difficulties of truth-telling, 18. Workshop Sixteen: Avoiding self-indulgence, 19. Workshop Seventeen: Borderlands - Memoir and fiction, 20. Workshop Eighteen: Creative nonfiction, 21. Workshop Nineteen: Wish you were here-Travel memoir, 22. Workshop Twenty: Random provocations-The personal essay, 23. Where to now?-Publishing, Reading list, Useful contacts, Acknowledgements, Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781760293086
ISBN-10:	1760293083
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Miller, Patti
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Patti Miller
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.06.2017
Gewicht:	0,538 kg