Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir by Miller, Lynn C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir

1 - The Occasion of the Telling: “It Begins Here because It’s about This”

A Place to Stand Is it an Autobiography, or Is it a Memoir? It’s about the Storyteller

Reliability and the Narrator Telling the Truth in Memoir

The Occasion of the Telling and Organizing the Memoir

She Died, So I Remember And Then, in an Instant, Everything Changed Now and Then, Then and Now

Consequence and the Occasion of the Telling

2 - The Two Yous: Finding a Place to Stand

The Remembering Self The Experiencing Self The Dance of the Two Yous

The Power of Testifying Taking Yourself by the Hand

Negotiating Duality Sensory Cues as Keys to Memory Using Language and Imagery to Move between the Two Yous The Nature of Memory

3 - Building a Narrative: Laying Down the Bones

Beginning Your Story

Catalysts and Conflicts Mapping the Tension

Examples of Structures

Chronological Structure Circular Structure Associative Structure Collage Structure Parallel Structure Locational Structure

Choosing a Structure

You and Your Audience Creating the World of Your Story

4 - Arranging the Scenes: Giving Them Muscle

Dramatic Structure Ordering the Scene

Catalyst Conflict Rising Action Reversals Climax Denouement

Particularizing the Moment

Internal Action External Action

The Emblematic Scene Putting it All Together

5 - Painting the Picture: Language and Setting

The Magic of Imagery Using Figurative Language Language and Sense of Place

Setting as Metaphor Place as Time Period

Language as Action

Controlling Time Dialogue Silence The Secrets of Subtext

6 - Your Story, Your Voice: Make it Your Own

The First-Person Voice

Between Experience and Remembering Beyond First Person

Your Two Voices

You, the Narrator You, the Character

Voices of the Masters

“She Opened Herself Up a Worm Farm” “The Fortuneteller Was Not Guilty” “Reveal[ing] Those Demons that Obsess Him” The Shadowy Personage Who Commits the Actual Writing “The Capsules of Safety, and Freedom”

Claiming Your Voice

You are the Camera Using What you Don’t Know

7 - Honoring the Memoir Process: Taking the Next Steps

Re-visioning Your Manuscript

Read it Aloud Put it Away Take it Out

An Editorial Checklist

The Occasion of the Telling The Two Yous Building a Narrative Arranging the Scenes Painting the Picture Your Story, Your Voice Honoring the Memoir Process

Other People, Other Rooms

Claiming Responsibility for Your Story The Ethics of Guilt

What’s Next?

Bringing Your Story into Public Space

Your Story, Your Book

Spotlight Exercises by Chapter Glossary Bibliography Other Suggested Memoirs

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