Slices of Life The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing eBook Cheryl Butler Stahle
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Slices of Life The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing guides the reader in gentle steps towards capturing the heart of the readers life story. To start readers on their journey, follow the chapters on getting started, finding a theme, developing writer's voice, avoiding common pitfalls, and publishing. Each chapter contains a variety of writing activites and prompts to help you dig out the story buried in the readers memories.
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Slices of Life The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing eBook Cheryl Butler Stahle Reviews
"You have a story to tell!" Cheryl Butler Stahle says on the title page of Slices of Life The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing. She's right. Everybody has great stories to tell, and no one can tell your story but you.
If you're having trouble getting started, progressing, figuring out what to include and exclude, digging for your deepest truths, or gaining perspective on why events matter, Stahle's book offers a bridge between the concept and the completed story. Her exercises and advice take you from knowing you have a story to tell to actually producing the story.
In her chapter, "Storytelling With a Twist," Stahle says, "Your memoir will be able to answer why an event happened, how it occurred and most importantly what did it mean and teach you." She invites you to give meaning to the events in your life, to explore and dig deeply because "facts require further explanation through storytelling."
In addition to explaining why memoirs matter, she offers readers numerous exercises. The first one, "Your Intention," asks you to "think about why you want to undertake this journey." Although I'd already answered the question for a memoir I'm working on, I tried it again. After ten minutes of writing I remembered why the story of my first marriage at age 62, would make a great read and be a ray of hope for older, single women. Her exercises generate material and focus your writing. The help you discover what belongs and what you really mean to say.
The topic "Bold Restlessness" spoke to the times I've felt paralyzed by the writing process. I'll return to that one next time I'm really stuck.
In the chapter called, "Being a Writer," Stahle addresses writer's block. She says, "Remember the common causes of writer's block fear of failure, fear of success, lack of concentration, and lack of energy." The first two are a bit generic, but the last two speak directly about two of my biggest issues. Her cure is to return to your original intention. While that might not completely cure my concentration or energy issues, she's given me a good path to take.
I love her combination of advice and prompts. It's a technique that worked for me in my own book, You Want Me to Do WHAT? Journaling for Caregivers. The structure works.
I was surprised, though, to see "memoires" instead of "memoirs" in the early pages--a proofreading issue. The beginnings of several chapters in the last third of the book are missing. The problem could have been resolved if the text started further down on the page.
Everybody has great stories to tell, and no one can tell your story but you. If you need help, Cheryl Butler Stahle's Slices of Life The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing is a useful resource. Check it out and see how much it has to offer.
by B. Lynn Goodwin
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
I found this book at a bookstore. Yes, they still have them. I wasn't particularly looking to buy anything that day. Instead, I was just looking to kill time waiting for a friend for our catch-up coffee date.
I've bought a few grammar and prompt books from in the past based on the comments of others. The grammar books are great references. The prompt books were actually counterproductive. Some were okay, filled with pictures and ideas to generate a thought to write about. Like the Three Bears, none felt right to me. I don't suffer from a lack of ideas. I was looking to expand on my thoughts to create more pages and hopefully a book some day. I know one idea does not a story make. What I was looking for was to be taken from A to Z. I would have settled for A to D even.
Amazingly,most idea books were over 250 pages and lead to more overwhelm and paralyzing emotions than inspiring or promoting me to write. One example was to "Recount a somewhat serious anecdote-real or a fictional one-in the form of a joke." What? Another was to, " Relate a dream you remember clearly. Write down exactly as you recall it, presenting the narrative as though the weird dream logic were completely normal." Huh? If I could do these things already, I wouldn't need a book in the first place. In fact,I'd be published already. Other prompt books were to general; write about your first kiss or the best birthday present you ever got. Who cares and what do I do after I write about that stuff?
Slice Of Life felt like the facilitator I was looking for. Simple in format(143 pages of nuts and bolts) yet, effective in its process of creating pages of ideas I'm passionate about. The contract you make with the author is to write daily for 20 minutes. The book lead me down a path of writing small, thought sentences, to actually writing until I lost track of time. The exercises had a purpose of unfolding dormant thoughts that I was able to link to past exercises throughout. The book is like that inspiring teacher we all had but didn't appreciate or let slip away. Because of this book, she resurfaced when I need her. I found it easy to relate to.
I've only gotten to page 52 but thought I'd use this forum to 1. fulfill the the agreement I made with the book and myself- write daily- and 2. to reach out to others that may have been equally frustrated and blocked as I was in tapping your abilities.
Cheryl Butler Stahle has written what may be, at least in my opinion, one of the best works on writing memoir yet to be published. I have read many and struggled to find the desire to push through mundane exercises and pages of words, words and more words.
In Stahle's book, the reader/memoir writer will find spaces of vast whiteness in which to make notes and doodle, if desired. The writing exercises, if you can call them that, are engaging and offered with clever ideas for prompts and motivational statements about the writing process. While reviewing the book, I found myself motivated to move from reviewer to student so I could take the time to do these exercises. I'll be going back to do them!
Not many books on writing include artwork and meaningful quotes with every chapter. Stahle has engaged a highly creative artist to add artwork to this book, and each chapter begins with an encouraging quote from writers with whom we are all familiar. These added touches make this a fun book to read.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Stahle's writing style is also very comfortable. Rather than feeling as if I was being lectured to, I felt as if I was having a conversation with a mentor or published memoirist willing to offer advice and encouragement.
I highly recommend Slices of Life to anyone wanting to write their life story.
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