Writing True Stories: The complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction

Author(s): Patti Miller

Writing

This book provides practical guidance and inspiration on a vast array of writing topics, including how to access memories, find a narrative voice, build a vivid world on the page, create structure, use research-and face the difficulties of truth-telling. The author first introduces and helps the reader to develop key writing skills, and then challenges more experienced writers to extend their knowledge and practice of the genre into literary nonfiction, true crime, biography, the personal essay, and travel and sojourn writing. Whether you want to write your own autobiography, investigate a wide-ranging political issue or bring to life an intriguing history, this book will be your guide. Writing True Stories is practical and easy to use as well as an encouraging and insightful companion on the writing journey. Written in a warm, clear and engaging style, it will get you started on the story you want to write--and keep you going until you reach the end.


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Patti is the writing whisperer! She taught me how to stop daydreaming and to get writing. I couldn't have written my memoir without her! -- Jessica Rowe, bestselling author of IS THIS MY BEAUTIFUL LIFE?

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. Her most recent memoir, Ransacking Paris, was released in April 2015 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.

General Fields

  • : 9781760293086
  • : Routledge
  • : Routledge
  • : 0.432
  • : April 2017
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : June 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Patti Miller
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 808.06692
  • : 320
  • : CBW