About this title: Written with elegance, warmth, and humor, this highly original "teaching memoir" by William Zinsserrenowned bestselling author of On Writing Well gives you the tools to organize and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narrative. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own: 13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781569243794ISBN:1569243794
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Da Capo Pr
Date Published: 2005-03-27
ISBN-13:9781569243794ISBN:1569243794
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781569243794ISBN:1569243794
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781569244685ISBN:1569244685
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
Date Published: 2004-04
ISBN-13:9781569244685ISBN:1569244685
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DA CAPO PR
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781569243794ISBN:1569243794
Description: New. Written with elegance, warmth, and humor, this highly original "teaching memoir" by William Zinsser-renowned bestselling author of On Writing Well gives you the tools to organize and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narra... read more
"Another strong book about writing, specifically non-fiction. I think there is something worthy of everyone capturing his or her own history for future generations. Zissner explains "Writers are the custodians of memory." He appreciates the magnitude of writing a memoir of any scope and breaks the process into achievable segments."
"My creative writing teacher in college suggested that before attempting any sort of creative writing, you should first write a memoir to both practice your writing and to declutter your own experiences so you don't keep revisiting them in your later fiction. I decided to take her advice and checked out this book to give myself a jump start.
At first, this book really got the juices flowing. After I read the first couple of chapters I sat down and wrote down all the memories I could think of about my elementary school. To me that's the best test for a book about writing -- it should make you really want to write. Unfortunately, the rest of the book did not have the same effect. It got really self-indulgent through the middle, more a chronology of Zinsser's writing career than a writing guide. There was another good chapter about writing one's own memoir toward the end, but overall I was pretty disappointed."
"The only thing that I enjoyed about this book was the brief chapter of how to write a memoir. Other than that I found it mostly just an excuse for the author to write an autobiography on himself but make it seem like it was a book of advice to writers. Altogether a disappointment!"
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