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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | In Your Life As Story, autobiography expert Tristine Rainer explains how we can all find the important messages in our lives. Like Mary Karr or Frank McCourt, we can shape those stories into dramatic narratives that are compelling to others. Blending literary scholarship with practical coaching, Rainer shares her remarkable techniques for finding the essentials of story structure within your life's scattered experiences. Most important, she explains how to treasure the struggles in your past and discover the meaning within those experiences to capture the unique myth at work in your life. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Tristine Rainer | | Paperback: | 368 pages | | Publisher: | Tarcher | | Publication Date: | April 13, 1998 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0874779227 | | Product Length: | 8.96 inches | | Product Width: | 6.06 inches | | Product Height: | 1.01 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.83 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.9 inches | | Package Width: | 5.9 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 30 reviews |
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77 of 77 found the following review helpful:
 Outstanding! Feb 26, 2004
Most writing books are like diet books, they make miracle promises and as you read, you believe that your success is going to be so easy. Then you put the book down and the next day realise it has given you zero practical guidance.
Tristine Rainer's book is geared, as the title says, to those who wish to write autobiography. However, this book would be equally invaluable to anyone who wants to write fiction inspired from life. She tackles a lot of thorny issues that I have rarely seen covered at all by the other writing books I own - and believe me I have quite a collection! Some of these issues include how best to handle the passage of time - THE single most difficult thing I've been grappling with in my own writing - as well as knowing what to leave out of your story, the ethical dilemmas of writing about family and friends, the pain of telling the truth on the page and last but not least, story structure.
Now story structure has been flogged to death by every writing manual, most notably Robert McKee and all those other Joseph Campbell story-as-myth screenwriting formula bores. Rainer takes this one giant leap further by providing a nine-step questionnaire about your story themes and your own life story, its pivotal moments, that magically turns into a story outline. I'm not kidding, this one ingredient of the book makes it worth the money in itself.
Finally, the author has a funny, engaging writing style, peppered with brave anecdotes about her own life misadventures and an extremely useful range of examples from autobiographers throghout history including Hemingway, Anais Nin and Simone de Beauvoir plus a whole raft of others that I had never come across but will now be reading.
Trust me, you need this book!
78 of 81 found the following review helpful:
Making Autobiographic and Memoir Writing Accessible to All Sep 21, 1999
By Rebecca Short
"Sapelo Angel"
What Tristine Rainer did for diary and journal writers in The New Diary she does for memoirists in Your Life as Story. Dispelling the myth that memoirs belong to the realms of celebrity and notoriety, she helps us realize that each of our personal stories is worthy of the written word. Whether your aim is preservation of family history, self awareness, or the New York Times bestseller list, you will find expert guidance within these pages. The author's grace and wit shine throughout and make the writing experience a joy. Reading it will inspire you to start writing your memoirs today!
37 of 37 found the following review helpful:
invaluable resource to writers of memoir or autobiography Feb 11, 2005
By J. Jacobs
This book does an excellent job of prodding one to dig deeper, asking pointed questions and directed short exercises to get you thinking. In writing my memoir, I had a hard time going beyond the surface events and revealing myself. This book asked me just the questions I needed to consider to remove my focus from events and to look at my inner emotions and conflicts. Reading the book and doing the exercises provided throughout results in a very helpful compilation of thoughts and structure that can give shape to a story.
I found the book's style to be sometimes overly chatty, especially at the beginning. But despite the fluff, all of the meat is in there, providing very useful tools to writers seeking to make a compelling story from their life experiences.
Take your time to go through this book slowly, doing the exercises in order. It took me several months. But at the end, I had a vision, an outline, and some very useful first draft material. I was finally on my way to putting together a manuscript. Follow Rainier's instructions and it will happen.
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Highly readable, full of useful tips for memoirists. Jul 16, 1998
Rainer has done it again -- captured the current trend in autobiographical writing and added depth and inspiration. In her former book, The New Diary, she gave tips and examples for journal keepers. Here, she captures the memoir wave and tells how to write your life story with a novelist's grace and style. Guaranteed to give you fresh ideas and motivation to get on with your own reminiscences.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
A great tool for composing your life. Jan 03, 1999
By D. W. Butler
"Silly Philosopher and Alchemist"
Ms. Rainer provides practical, useful tips and excercises for creating you memoir, whatever your motivation, be it for personal satisfaction, a legacy for your children or for publication. The author dispells the myth that only the "rich and infamous" can publish autobiographies. She challenges us to find the pieces of our lives which are truly unique and to present them as literature. In summary, this book is an excellent tool not only for autobiographers but also for aspiring (or accomplished) writers and for those struggling with some aspect of their life. Get it, work it, and share it!
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