Writing Life Stories, Bill Roorbach
Writing Life Stories, Bill Roorbach
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Writing Life Stories
How To Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays And Life Into Literature

Author: Bill Roorbach

Narrator: John McLain

Unabridged: 11 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/08/2020

Synopsis

From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers.

Writing Life Stories is a classic text that appears on countless creative nonfiction and composition syllabi the world over. This updated 10th anniversary edition gives you the same friendly instruction and stimulating exercises along with updated information on current memoir writing trends, ethics, internet research, and even marketing ideas. You'll discover how to turn your untold life stories into vivid personal essays and riveting memoirs by learning to open up memory, access emotions, shape scenes from experience, develop characters, and research supporting details.

This guide will teach you to see your life more clearly and show you why real stories are often the best ones.

About Bill Roorbach

Bill Roorbach is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Flannery O'Connor Prize and O. Henry Prize winner Big Bend, Into Woods, Temple Stream, and the bestselling Life Among Giants. The 10th anniversary edition of his craft book, Writing Life Stories, is used in writing programs around the world. His work has been published in Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, New York, and dozens of other magazines and journals. Life Among Giants was an Editor's Pick for Amazon's Best 2012, a Shelf Awareness Top Ten Best Fiction for 2012, and a winner of the Maine Literary Award for Fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gil on July 27, 2011

This book is one of the group that helped me write my book. I found it to be an excellent "class-in-a-book" for those who want to write a personal essay but are not sure how to get started. When I think of this book, Roorback's advice that first comes to mind is squeezing out all the meaning from eac......more

Goodreads review by S. on August 01, 2012

There is a ton of information packed into this book. A ton. It is geared toward nonfiction writers, but even so a fiction writer can bring away a new way of looking at their writing. It did take me quite awhile to get through all the material, mostly because it would make me think about the way I wr......more

Goodreads review by Jo Berry on October 11, 2023

I’m nearly halfway through, but I’ve decided to DNF this. It just rambles on too much and I can’t think of anything useful I’ve learnt from it so far. Too much discussion of the people in the author’s writing class and tedious sounding writing exercises I felt no urge to try. Maybe it works for some......more

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