Writing Your Life: Putting Past on Paper

Veteran, writing teacher, lecturer, and author of , Lou Willet Stanek can help you translate your joys and ordeals, thoughts and triumphs into superbly crafted nonfiction — taking you step-by-step through the writing process with care, encouragement, and expert advice. She shows you how to unlock your memories, create settings and scenes, protray major characters and dramatic events. And she offers the key to finding your own unique voice, and to presenting your greatest charcter — — without boring your reader or sounding egotistical. Complete with invaluable exercises, nuts-and-bolts techniques, and motivational tools, is indispensible for every aspiring writer who wishes to mine the rich lode of his or her past for all the gems hidden there.