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Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past

By William Zinsser

Book information

Publisher
Da Capo Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9781569243794, 1569244685, 1569243794
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10640892 bytes)
Pages
240\248
Time added
2022-01-08 22:43:24

Description

Written with elegance, warmth, and humour, 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 narrative. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own: 13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, amusing, and often surprising moments in his long and varied life as a writer, editor, teacher, and traveller. Along the way, Zinsser pauses to explain the technical decisions he made as he wrote about his life. They are the same decisions you'll have to make as you write about your own life: matters of selection, condensation, focus, attitude, voice, and tone.

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