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 | Learning to Write the Easy Way For Fun, Posterity, and Profit by Dorothy Ann Skarles | Reviewed by Midge Baker | |
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| Publisher: Twilight Times Press
http://twilighttimesbooks.com/ ISBN: ebook 1931201412; paperback 1931201986 Genre: Nonfiction Subgenre: writing advice Release date: Nov 2007 Format: Ebook, Trade Paperback Pages: 210 Price: $5.50 ebook; $18.95 trade paperback | |||
| Book excerpt: "Every passing minute becomes a memory. If you think about it, we are never quite in the present. The events occurring now, whether they happened an hour ago, twenty minutes or a second ago, quickly become added memories. The present only stays present for a fleeting instant.
"Today more than ever before people are reaching out and for posterity, trying to record their personal memories of family history. The reading of records, journals, letters and diaries has led to a great deal of interest in writing memoirs or autobiographies. The words you write can be called modest immortality." When Dorothy Skarles emailed me recently, we found ourselves easily and happily sharing memories with each other, even though we've never met. Read her book, and you will find yourself easily and happily WRITING your memories, for fun, posterity - and for profit. Follow her step-by-step instructions, do the exercises she provides, and you will write. You won't be able to help yourself. She has spent over a decade teaching an adult education memoir critiquing class for young and old. Learning to Write is the result of that experience. Her pages are decorated with charming artwork of her own creation. Her emphasis is on writing autobiographies, memoirs, and personal experience articles. Her techniques are invaluable for writing all fiction and non-fiction genres, and she teaches you how to apply them. Her own published articles in several genres prove her techniques work. Follow the "Red String" - her name for the theme, that spinal cord which supports the whole. First, she shows how we all have stories to tell. She gives advice and exercises for choosing and enhancing these themes. By teaching the use of transitional words and phrases, as well as emphasizing use of the five senses, she teaches you to add the elements of your story like the vertebrae of the spinal column. Her exercises take you down to the minutia involved in depicting colorful characters. When you are done, you will have a story - indeed, many potential stories. The appendices to her book teach you the nitty-gritty of finding publishing venues. Caveats on how to pick and avoid publishers. Whom to address queries to and the proper formats in which to write them. Which rights are saleable and which are not and the significance of each. How to get permission from people who appear in your photos. She even discusses the pros and cons of using subtitles and pseudonyms. I give this book my own personal recommendation. It is one of the best, most detailed courses on writing I have ever seen. | |||
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