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From Memory to Memoir: Writing the Stories of Your Life

From Memory to Memoir: Writing the Stories of Your Life

by Mark David Gerson
From Memory to Memoir: Writing the Stories of Your Life
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From Memory to Memoir: Writing the Stories of Your Life

From Memory to Memoir: Writing the Stories of Your Life

by Mark David Gerson

Overview

Get the Stories of Your Life onto the Page Today!

• Share Your Wisdom...naturally, spontaneously and without struggle
• Craft Rich, Compelling Stories...regardless of writing experience or perceived ability
• Engage, Entertain and Inspire...with eloquence, confidence and ease

What you have lived is unique. What you have learned through your years of living is beyond price. And the value of all you share through your words is incalculable.

"I wish I’d had this book when I was writing my memoir!"
– Karen Walker, author of Following the Whispers

"The writing guide every memoirist has been waiting for!"
– Nancy Pogue LaTurner, author of Voluntary Nomads

Whoever you are, whatever your experiences, whatever your perceived writing ability, From Memory to Memoir will connect you not only with the stories you remember but with the stories you have forgotten. It will serve up the inspiration guaranteed to get you writing and keep you writing, the tools and techniques guaranteed to help you craft a rich, compelling narrative, and the support guaranteed to sustain you from the initial word of your book’s first draft to the final word of its ultimate draft.

"Join me on this adventure of a lifetime...this journey into the experience of your own creativity as, together, we write the stories of your life!"

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781950189014
Publisher: MDG Media International
Publication date: 02/15/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 202
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Mark David Gerson is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books. His nonfiction includes popular titles for writers, inspiring personal growth books and compelling memoirs. As a novelist he is best known for The Legend of Q'ntana fantasy series, coming soon to movie theaters. When he's not writing, Mark David coaches an international roster of both first-time and seasoned writers to help them get their stories onto the page and into the world with ease. www.markdavidgerson.com

Table of Contents

Opening Words

1. Getting Started
Your Life, Your Story
How to Use This Book
Guided Meditations

2. First Principles
Mark David’s 12 1⁄2 “Rules” for Writing
In the Flow with the Muse Stream
If You Get Stuck...Seven Ways to Get Unstuck
Your Story Knows Best
The Spirit of Your Story: A Guided Meditation
To Outline or Not to Outline?
The Word Tree
Time to Write

3. 15 1⁄2 “Rules” for Writing Your Memoir
Rules? There Are No Rules Be Honest
Be Vulnerable
Abandon Control
Share More Depth Than Detail
Be Specific
Acknowledge that “Objective Fact” Is Fiction
Recognize that “Fact” and “Truth” Are Not the Same
Be the Storyteller You Are
Don’t Lie or Manipulate Known Facts
You Will Make Factual Errors: Get Over It
Don’t Censor Yourself
Own Your Story
Let Your Memoir Own Your Book
Write!
Rules? Oh, Yeah. There Are None!

4. Writing Your Memoir
Now Is the Time
Your Ocean of Stories
Your Ocean of Stories: A Guided Meditation
Fifty-Five Keys to Trigger Your Tales

5. Crafting Your Memoir
The Power of Now
Your Time Machine: A Guided Meditation
Painting the People of Your Past
Reawakening Your Memory: The People
Character Connections: A Guided Meditation
Painting the Places of Your Past
Reawakening Your Memory: The Places
Stepping into Place: A Guided Meditation

6. Envisioning Your Memoir
What’s Your Vision?
Vision Quest: A Guided Meditation

7. Editing Your Memoir
Why Edit?
Finding the Vision in Revision
Your First Step
The Art of Heartful Revision
22 1⁄2 “Rules” for Revision
The Spirit of Heartful Revision: A Guided Meditation

8. Freeing Your Memoir into the World
“What Do You Think of My Memoir?”
The Seven Be’s of Empowered Feedback
“Read This Before You Read My Memoir”
The Seven Be’s of Compassionate Feedback
From the Annals of the Infamously Rejected

9. Engaging in the Words of the World
Read to Write, Read to Live

10. Your Memoir, Your Life
Your Memoir, Your Life
My Memoir, My Life
Mark David’s 12 1⁄2 “Rules” for Living

11. The Writer You Are
You Are a Writer: A Guided Meditation

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