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1. Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir - Good Book This time around, Zinsser has added a rich and charming reminiscence In INVENTING THE TRUTH, several memoirists offer their viewpoints on writing about one's life. Each author talks about the process of discovering different ways to tell their own...
2. The Write Prompts What is a writing prompt? It is a word, picture, phrase, quote or set of directions to help you kick start your writing for those days when you just can't get anything to percolate. In this lens you will find a few of the above options to help yo...
3. Tuesdays With Morrie: A Book Review Have you ever felt like you're never gonna be the same again after reading a book? This book is more of a memoir of two people's lives on how they both learned from each other as a student and teacher. It is truly filled with wisdom and aphorisms tha...
4. Capturing Memories--Writing Your Autobiography or Memoir To write about your life. Where to start? Instead of trying to "start from the beginning"--where you write, "I was born in such-and-such-a-year, and then, and then, and then .... and here I am."  It's better to catch small g...
5. Norma Jean's Sun, True Story Memoir Cincinnati, OH, December 2009:  Available for immediate purchase; nationally distributed through Amazon.com. Miraculous tale of how a boy, born into unimaginable physical and emotional pain and destined to be a misfit, finds his way in a world o...
6. Your Life Story Journal Great Holiday Gift - Always sells well this time of year as family members put it under the tree for other loved ones. Hi, I am David Marshall.  At 90, my grandfather wrote his memoirs back in 1993 with wheelbarrows of help from my aunt tr...
7. Broken Music by Sting: The Book and the Tour Sting's first attempts at music came at the piano at his grandparent's home. As he banged away at the piano, his grandmother described the noise he made as "Broken Music". Thus, the title of his book. In October 2003, "Broken Music...
8. Octogenarian Self-Publishes Memoirs Gail Lee Martin taught family memory writing classes for a number of years. During that time, she started writing down her own memories of the 1930s. Some were published in magazines like Kanhistique that covered Kansas history and antiques. Now thes...
9. How to Create an About Me Lens When I first got online ten years ago there were probably more personal webpages than commercial ones.  Geocities and Tripod ruled and it was fun to play with this new toy that allowed us to tell everyone way more than they really cared to learn...
10. Staying Put by Scott Russell Sanders A Book by Scott Russell Sanders HOME is a word that conjures different meanings for different people. Through this collection of eight essays in his book "Staying Put", Scott Russell Sanders attempts to "consider the virtue and discipline of staying...
11. Mental Captures! Get Those Thoughts Before They Get Away! Those fleeting images you get in your mind, in your imagination, in your dreams, in your experiences... do they whoosh off and disappear? Or, have you been able to capture these images? These mental images are moments of time. If you don't capture th...
12. Messenger from the Summer of Love This book inspires us to remember that love is the most important thing, and that we can live life in a way that brings joy to our souls and thereby uplift the consciousness of others whose lives we touch. Messenger from the Summer of Love is a fun...
13. Personal Growth Through Travel   I love to travel and tell stories about the places I visit. Escaping my usual roles and responsibilities challenges my personal growth and allows me to be my true Self. I have written stories about my life, my travels and my growth th...
14. Susan Shelby Magoffin, by Kelley Pounds Unlike the trails to Oregon and California, the Santa Fe Trail was strictly a trade route between the years 1822 and 1846. During this time, women rarely traveled between Missouri--the most popular "jumping-off place" for westbound trails--and Santa...
15. A feel good book for hopeless romantics, a compelling read for mystery freaks, a roller coaster ride for everyone else When I boarded the plane in Melbourne, Australia, bound for New York with a mere $150 in my pocket, I had no idea what lay in store for me when I arrived at the other end of my flight. I would be greeted, warmly as it turned out, by a beautiful schoo...
16. How to Write Your Life Story Several years ago my wife and I were dining with another couple. Throughout the evening the conversation shifted from subject to subject as most conversations do, and late in the evening “Bill” related the following story. During the Kor...
17. A highly praised "fun" memoir. Author? Me. Set in New York, Regency England, Australia, New Zealand and Northern Italy, this is a true romantic adventure which alternates between the present and the past, a gripping historical mystery combined with drama and intrigue on the High Seas 200 year...
18. Three Books Inspired by Blogs Many people used to wonder about the merits of blog writing. With millions of blogs on the Web, it can be difficult to find quality writing. The three blogs discussed here are part of that small group that made the leap from the Internet to publishin...
19. Bad Bridesmaid Bachelorette brawls and taffeta tantrums - what we go through for her big day Bad Bridesmaid: an underachieving, inadequate, sinful, vulgar, naughty or disobedient bridal attendant. Usually characterized by eye- rolling, drunkenness, lack of pantyhose...
20. My Book "In Pursuit of Joy" I have worked these last fifteen or so years in the field of mental health. In this work I have noticed several things. When I was in college, I noticed that every time you told someone you were studying psychology, people would invariably say someth...