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Moments of Memoir: Writing the Stories of Life by Dr. Lisa Van Zwoll, Florida...Lisa Van Zwoll
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Edita Kaye details how writer's block effects all writers, but that there are ways to go about fixing it and becoming a better writer. Find out how by viewing this!
An article on HOW To Tell a Story. it may seem like an easy task but involves a lot of tasks such as imagination, innovation and visualization. This presentation has been made giving an example of the Batman trilogy in mind.
Edita Kaye details how writer's block effects all writers, but that there are ways to go about fixing it and becoming a better writer. Find out how by viewing this!
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The idea is the heart of your story. Knowing it keeps you on target to complete the book and succeed. Idea is not story. Being able to state your idea in one sentence is key. We often spend an entire day at our writing workshop getting the four attendees to pin this one sentence down, but that's how important it is!
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Glesne, C. (2016). Becoming qualitative researchers An introductiMerrileeDelvalle969
Glesne, C. (2016). Becoming qualitative researchers: An introduction (5th ed.). Pearson.
CH 8
Chapter 8 Crafting Your Story: Writing Up Qualitative Data
One hopes that one’s case will touch others. But how to connect? Not by calculation, I think, not by the assumption that in the pain of my toothache, or my father’s, or Harry Crosby’s, I have discovered a “universal condition of consciousness.” One may merely know that no one is alone and hope that a singular story, as every true story is singular, will in the magic way of some things apply, connect, resonate, touch a major chord.
(Pachter, 1981, p. 72)
Why do we write? The report is, of course, an expected part of what is in store when you sign on as a researcher. Some of you may write because you have to do so, but I suspect that most of you have larger intentions. Writing is not easy. Hours turn into days and days turn into months and months, sometimes into years, and you are still working on the same manuscript. Why would you invest so much time reading, researching, writing, and rewriting? At a basic level, you have observations, insights, and experiences you want to share. But why do you want to share them? What about those nagging voices of self-doubt that mutter, “It’s all been said before; nothing you say is really new. Who are you to think you have anything to say?” But when you quiet those voices and get down to writing, you know that underneath it all you want to connect with others, get them to think about something in a different way and, perhaps, act in a different way. In short, as Mary Pipher (2007) titles her book, you may be Writing to Change the World. If that be the case, then your writing needs to be read. For it to be read, it needs to engage. Fortunately, different people are engaged by different styles of writing, but no matter the style, writing that is read is writing in which the author is careful and deliberate in the use of words. Good writing gives shape to ideas and kindles imagination and visions of the possible.
In qualitative inquiry, writing ultimately gives form to the researcher’s clumps of carefully organized and analyzed data. It links together thoughts that developed throughout the research process and were jotted in journals. The act of writing inspires new thoughts and connections. Writing constructs the housing for the meaning that you and others make of the research endeavor. As writer, you engage in a sustained act of construction, which includes selecting a particular “story” to tell from the data you have analyzed, and creating the literary form that you believe best conveys your account. It perhaps matters to some—but needs no resolution—whether the researcher’s construction is more like that of an architect, proceeding from a vision embodied in a plan, or like that of a painter, whose vision emerges over time from intuition, sense, and feeling. For many, constructing a text is possibly some combination of both plan and intuition. This cha ...
The Original Idea: The Seed of Your StoryBob Mayer
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“A book to inspire, instruct and challenge the writer in everyone.”
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Creative Nonfiction
SHS
Creative writing
Types of Nonfiction
Definition of Nonfiction
Elements of Creative nonfiction
Nonfictional elements
Fi9iction elements
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Interpretation Quotes
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Less information often leads to more interpretation. – John Paul Caponigro
Life is like art – it is all about interpretation. – Robert Holden
I did not document anything, I gave an interpretation. – Andre Kertesz
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. – Pablo Casals.
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. – Jacques Lipchitz
Skies are so plastic because they are ephemeral and keep changing. They offer opportunities for dramatic re-interpretation. – David Dunlop
An interpretive piece of art does not necessarily have to be attractive; it just has to be true as visualized by the artist. – Sterling Edwards
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world. – Elliot W. Eisner
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot
Quotes about Interpretation
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourselves but to interpret ourself to ourself. – T. S. Eliot
Material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter… – James Elkins
Everything is subject to personal interpretation and this provides us with thoughts that provoke creative stimulus, and thankfully we all see things differently. – Susan Flaig
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks – and especially admits of different interpretations. – Andre Gide.
Fortunately, art is a community effort – a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. – Allen Ginsberg
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that’s because things fall out in the way. – Edward Gorey.
That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective
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1. As a form of Creative Nonfiction
“Good memoirs are a careful act of construction.” —William
Zinsser
• Frey
• * Joyce Maynard
2. “…your story is your story to tell…”
—page 21, Tell It Slant
Based on our reading in Chapter 2, “Writing
the Family” (Tell It Slant), what are some of the
challenges you think you might face in
working on your memoir piece?
3. Real Life
Reflection
Research
Reading
“Riting”
Adapted from Lee Gutkind, editor of Creative
Non-Fiction magazine
4. Immersion into and with actual events,
locations, people
Scenes (showing) versus telling stories from
real life that draw in the reader
Description from real life of people and places
5. What is the meaning behind the real experience
or story the writer is telling?
Is there a message that extends beyond the
author’s own reaction, a larger meaning?
Reflection means asking yourself questions
about your story, whether it’s a personal
experience or a story outside yourself.
6. The mission of nonfiction, in part, is to inform
and educate.
Even a personal story requires research in
order to provide significant details.
The research connects the personal story to a
larger intellectual context.
7. Even people writing about their own lives
often extend outside themselves
To verify
To add context
For example…
8. Expanding your knowledge and ideas by
DEVOURING the works of other writers.
Not just other creative nonfiction writers, but
other artists and fiction writers and scientists
and musicians and on and on. The more you
know, the more context you have for your own
discovery
9. The rough-draft writing of inspiration and
exercises
The revision writing of cleaning up grammar,
sentence structure, word choice and,
sometimes, the complete structural redrafting
of pieces.
10. In Night of the Gun, David Carr writes:
“Memoir is a very personal form of creation
myth.”
In Tell It Slant, the authors write: “Memory itself
could be called its own bit of creative
nonfiction.”
How do you interpret these statements?
11. Narrative means, in the simplest terms, how
we tell the story, or how we “frame” the story.
Is it chronological? Ordered by the importance
of the events? Circular, coming back to the
beginning of the piece? Are there sections that
each begin with a uniform element?
Narrative construction in writing is how we
make transform memories/ ideas into...art
12. “A metaphor is a way of getting at a truth that
exists beyond the literal.”
Metaphor is a common device or “technique”
in poetry. How might it work in creative
nonfiction, based on our reading this week?
13. “Excavation” by Wendy Ortiz
“The Answer to the Riddle is Me” by David Stuart
MacLean
Voice
Description
Scene
Theme
What other writing elements do you note in these
excerpts that correspond to the sensory chapters in
Tell It Slant that we read: smell, taste, hearing,
touch, sight
14. “I think the worst thing that can happen to a
writer is a clear diagnosis. Diagnoses winnow
away possibility and eliminate any data that
doesn’t correspond to the diagnosis. A good
non-fiction writer allows the play between
experience and diagnosed condition. It’s the
data that doesn’t fit the diagnosis that makes
the writer idiosyncratic.”
—David Stuart MacLean
15. Pick one event from your life that was
meaningfully and that raised questions for
you—that has potential for a short memoir.
First, let’s read, p. 57, “First Actors,” (Tell It Slant)
Write the event as a scene, make it as detailed as
you can.
You should try to choose a memory that is at least
several years old.
Just plunge in: 20 minutes
16. Revise or continue working on today’s free-
writing exercise for a 2-4 page first draft, due
next week
Use one of the exercises from Tell It Slant, pages
12-16 and write something new for a 2-4 page
first draft
Or...write something different based on an
idea/ inspiration for a 2-4 page first memoir
draft
Editor's Notes
We could listen to an interview with William Zinsser, well known writing writer, which delves into contemporary memoir. This is a few years old, but it still gives a good history. Listen to Frey stuff, joyce maynard and JD Salinger
In the introduction, the authors of Tell It Slant refer to Lee Gutkind, the editor of the magazine Creative Nonfiction, who devised the five Rs of creative nonfiction
David Carr is the media reporter for The New York Times and he wrote a memoir several years ago about his time as a drug addict, but because he was a drug addict then he wanted to actually go back and report on his own life, not just use his own memories.
Uniform element could mean starting each section with a scene or a quote or an idea. Some of you who have already studied fiction are familiar with the Aristotelian notion of the narrative arc. Freytag triangle. The idea is that every story has a beginning, middle and end, and that we naturally create that structure, that sense of plot, when we consider our own lives.
How would you characterize the voice/ tone of this first piece
Who can tell me the difference between a scene and a summary