This title offers a complete resource for life writing - one of the
key genres studied within creative writing. "Writing Your Self" is
a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in exploring
personal material in their writing. It examines how a wide range of
successful writers approach personal material and the different
modes and techniques they use. The first part of the book focuses
on a wide range of universal experiences including childhood,
identity, adult relationships and loss as well as more specific
issues such as exile and displacement, physical and mental illness
and abuse. Throughout the book, a wide range of writers discuss
their own experiences and how they have tackled this material in
their writing. Part Two offers a series of techniques and a wide
range of practical exercises and examples. Part Three discusses the
writing process, moving to finished pieces of work in different
genres and the question of publication. Bringing together writers
with a broad range of valuable experience, this is the definitive
resource for exploring life writing and offers an exciting range of
possibilities, examples and techniques for approaching personal
material.
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