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"The 'Backwards' Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for
Reflection, Connection and Inspiration" demystifies the writing
process by inviting writers of all levels to focus on their
passions, questions, and obsessions as the key to generating seeds
for further exploration of the world around them. Writers then
develop these questions into focused projects that explore the
teller's central role in the open-ended quest of unfolding a
research topic. The boom in narrative journalism, memoir, and
creative nonfiction has generated wonderful writing, but no
resource for writers exists to bridge the gap between passionate
research and the page. This book addresses that gap by turning the
task of research on its head and by speaking to students who resist
the idea of research as an objective and dry assignment. Students
are invited to experiment creatively with collecting observations
and information and then to step beyond their subjective realities
to interact with the world around them and ultimately become
vulnerable authors willing to change their perspectives as they
research and write. Developed with input from college student
writers, "The 'Backwards' Research Guide for Writers" is relevant
as a text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
composition, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and feature
writing as well as for working journalists and other writers
seeking a new way of approaching a writing project. It includes
interviews with notable authors that focus not on the completed and
intimidating project of a successful author, but on the project as
it took shape and mystified a researcher. Another unique feature is
a section in every chapter on ethics, as ethical questions are
central to the writing process as well as a method for sparking
interest in writing and learning. The guide includes extensive
examples of research challenges and dilemmas, strategies for
planning a research project, exercises for generating ideas, a
guide for writing the research-based work, an appendix of on-line
databases, a section in each chapter focused on ethics in research
and writing called gray matter, a selection of recommended
readings, and a bibliography of conventional research guides.
Though it is foundational to the craft of writing, the concept of
voice is a mystery to many authors, and teachers of writing do not
have a good working definition of it for use in the classroom.
Written to address the vague and problematic advice given to
writers to "find their voice," Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto
recasts the term in the plural to give writers options, movement,
and a way to understand the development of voice over time. By
redefining "voice," Sonya Huber offers writers an opportunity not
only to engage their voices but to understand and experience how
developing their range of voices strengthens their writing. Weaving
together in-depth discussions of various concepts of voice and
stories from the author's writing life, Voice First offers a
personal view of struggles with voice as influenced and shaped by
gender, place of origin, privilege, race, ethnicity, and other
factors, reframing and updating the conversation for the
twenty-first century. Each chapter includes writing prompts and
explores a different element of voice, helping writers at all
levels stretch their concept of voice and develop a repertoire of
voices to summon.
"The 'Backwards' Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for
Reflection, Connection and Inspiration" demystifies the writing
process by inviting writers of all levels to focus on their
passions, questions, and obsessions as the key to generating seeds
for further exploration of the world around them. Writers then
develop these questions into focused projects that explore the
teller's central role in the open-ended quest of unfolding a
research topic. The boom in narrative journalism, memoir, and
creative nonfiction has generated wonderful writing, but no
resource for writers exists to bridge the gap between passionate
research and the page. This book addresses that gap by turning the
task of research on its head and by speaking to students who resist
the idea of research as an objective and dry assignment. Students
are invited to experiment creatively with collecting observations
and information and then to step beyond their subjective realities
to interact with the world around them and ultimately become
vulnerable authors willing to change their perspectives as they
research and write. Developed with input from college student
writers, "The 'Backwards' Research Guide for Writers" is relevant
as a text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
composition, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and feature
writing as well as for working journalists and other writers
seeking a new way of approaching a writing project. It includes
interviews with notable authors that focus not on the completed and
intimidating project of a successful author, but on the project as
it took shape and mystified a researcher. Another unique feature is
a section in every chapter on ethics, as ethical questions are
central to the writing process as well as a method for sparking
interest in writing and learning. The guide includes extensive
examples of research challenges and dilemmas, strategies for
planning a research project, exercises for generating ideas, a
guide for writing the research-based work, an appendix of on-line
databases, a section in each chapter focused on ethics in research
and writing called gray matter, a selection of recommended
readings, and a bibliography of conventional research guides.
Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of
spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain,
though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood
and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other
Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and
experimental essays about living with chronic pain. Sonya Huber
moves away from a linear narrative to step through the doorway into
pain itself, into that strange, unbounded reality. Although the
essays are personal in nature, this collection is not a record of
the author's specific condition but an exploration that transcends
pain's airless and constraining world and focuses on its edges from
wild and widely ranging angles. Huber addresses the nature and
experience of invisible disability, including the challenges of
gender bias in our health care system, the search for effective
treatment options, and the difficulty of articulating chronic pain.
She makes pain a lens of inquiry and lyricism, finds its humor and
complexity, describes its irascible character, and explores its
temperature, taste, and even its beauty.
With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting
and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from
graphic memoirs to blogs and other visual-verbal-virtual texts.
This edited collection is a timely study of new approaches to
writing lives, including literary docu-memoir, autobiographical
cartography, social media life writing and autobiographical writing
for children. Combining literary theory with insightful critical
approaches, each essay offers a serious study of innovative forms
of life writing, with a view to reflecting on best practice and
offering the reader practical guidance on methods and techniques.
Offering a range of practical exercises and an insight into
cutting-edge literary methodologies, this is an inspiring and
thought-provoking companion for students of literature and creative
writing studying courses on life writing, memoir or creative
non-fiction.
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed
health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at
all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the
family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health
insurance after college graduation, she didn't worry. It was a
temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her
view of the matter was quite different. Huber's irreverent and
affecting memoir of navigating the nation's health-care system
brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political
debates and propaganda surrounding health-care reform. "I look like
any other upwardly mobile hipster," Huber says. "I carry a
messenger bag, a few master's degrees, and a toddler raised on
organic milk." What's not evident, however, is that she is a
veteran of Medicaid and WIC, the federal government's supplemental
nutrition program for women, infants, and children. In "Cover Me,"
Huber tells a story that is at once all too familiar and rarely
told: of being pushed to the edge by worry; of the adamant belief
that better care was out there; of taking one mind-numbing job
after another in pursuit of health insurance, only to find herself
scrounging through the trash heap of our nation's health-care
system for tips and tricks that might mean the difference between
life and death.
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It had come to this: breastfeeding her screaming three-month-old
while sitting on the cigarette-scarred floor of a union hall, lying
to her husband so she could attend yet another activist meeting,
and otherwise actively self-destructing. Then Sonya Huber turned to
her long-dead grandfather, the family "nobody," for help. Huber's
search for meaning and resonance in the life of her grandfather
Heina Buschman was unusual insofar as she knew him only through
dismissive family stories: He let his wife die of neglect . . . he
used his infant son as a decoy when transporting anti-Nazi
literature in a baby carriage . . . and so the stories went. What
she actually discovered was that, like his granddaughter, Heina
Buschman was a committed and beleaguered activist whose story
echoed her own. Huber's research not only conjured her
grandfather's voice in answer to many of the questions that
troubled her but also found in his story a source of personal
sustenance for herself. Based on extensive research and
documentation, this story of Heina Buschman offers a rare look into
the heart of the "average" socialist trying to survive the Nazis
and rebuild a broken world. Alternating with his voice is Huber's
own, providing a rich and moving counterpoint that makes this
deeply personal exploration of family, politics, and individual
responsibility a story for all of us and for all time.
With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting
and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from
graphic memoirs to blogs and other visual-verbal-virtual texts.
This edited collection is a timely study of new approaches to
writing lives, including literary docu-memoir, autobiographical
cartography, social media life writing and autobiographical writing
for children. Combining literary theory with insightful critical
approaches, each essay offers a serious study of innovative forms
of life writing, with a view to reflecting on best practice and
offering the reader practical guidance on methods and techniques.
Offering a range of practical exercises and an insight into
cutting-edge literary methodologies, this is an inspiring and
thought-provoking companion for students of literature and creative
writing studying courses on life writing, memoir or creative
non-fiction.
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