Download or read book Straightforward Guide to Writing Your Life Story written by Nicholas Corder and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide will help readers to write their own life story, whether for personal fulfilment, as a legacy for future generations or even for publication. Packed with solid, helpful advice to help the reader on the road to writing their own story, the guide can be used as a reference work for those attending more formal courses of study. Key techniques are covered, from ideas on how to jog memory to planning, writing and editing.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Writing a Memoir written by Victoria Costello and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps readers write memoirs, personal essays, and life stories of every length and type.
Download or read book Writing Your Own Life Story written by Nicholas Corder and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a story to tell, no matter what age or background. This text demonstrates the key skills needed to make a start, to make a story interesting and also to publish your story.
Download or read book A Straightforward Guide to Creative Writing written by Stephen Wade and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest book in the Straightforward Guide to Creative Writing series updates and builds upon the previous edition by introducing new techniques and practical workshops. The reader is given a firm grounding in the art of creative writing. This guide is the perfect book for all those who wish to develop their skills in this area, whether through a course of study or as a hobby. The book provides the essential knowledge needed to approach this increasingly marketable area.
Download or read book A Straightforward Guide to Writing Business and Personal Letters written by Robert Fry and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Straightforward Guide to Writing Business and Personal Letters, Third Edition, deals with the production of effective letters covering both business and personal situations.The book dwells from the outset on grammar and punctuation. It shows the writer how they can express what they are trying to say, how to lay it out and take care that the letter achieves its aims.
Download or read book How to Write Your Own Life Story written by Lois Daniel and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the story of one's life sounds like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. This warmhearted, encouraging guide helps readers record the events of their lives for family and friends. Excerpts from other writers' work are included to exemplify and inspire. Provided are tips on intriguing topics to write about, foolproof tricks to jog your memory, ways to capture stories on paper without getting bogged down, ways to gather the facts at a local library or historical society, inspired excerpts from other writers, and published biographies that will delight and motivate.
Download or read book Straightforward Guide to Getting the Best Out of Your Retirement written by Patrick Grant and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrates specifically on the housing, health and leisure opportunities that follow retirement. It is very important to ensure that, once retired, the correct housing - whether a house or high-care accommodation - is available. It is equally important to ensure that healthcare is catered for and the costs are recognised. Leisure opportunities are also covered, along with general travel and the range of benefits open to the retired person.
Download or read book A Straightforward Guide to Planning for Retirement written by Patrick Grant and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates clearly how those of retirement age and beyond can maximise their income and so enjoy their retirement. While it has always been important to plan for retirement, it is now more crucial than ever to ensure that people understand the opportunities available to them. This book demonstrates clearly the growth areas and the areas to avoid.
Download or read book A Straightforward Guide to the Rights of the Consumer written by David Bryan and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer rights are becoming ever more complex, particularly in the light of European legislation. This latest book in the Straightforward Guide series revises and updates the previous edition for 2009. The book is clear, concise and intended for the layperson. It will enable anyone to gain a greater understanding of all the main areas associated with consumer law.
Download or read book A Straightforward Guide to Financial Planning For The Future written by Anthony Vice and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to reflect changes in the financial system for 2010, this guide provides expert advice on all aspects of the complex area of retirement finance. Many men and women aged 45 and over are now starting to think about pensions and financial security in a retirement that could last 25 years or more. They are also thinking about providing for elderly relatives. Shows readers how to strike a balance between savings and investments and also how tax efficient investments deliver on time.
Download or read book A Straightforward Guide to Intellectual Property and the Law written by Matthew Ward and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the framework of law as it governs all aspects of copyright and intellectual property. Covers all areas relating to copyright, patents, trademarks and general ownership of intellectual property. Immediately accessible to all - student, layperson or professional.
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Download or read book A Straightforward Guide to Writing Romantic Fiction written by Kate Walker and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of A Straightforward Guide to Writing Romantic Fiction is intended to give the reader a firm grounding in the art of writing romantic fiction. The reader is given an insight into the art of creative writing and the book contains all the basic information needed to develop a successful career. A Straightforward Guide to Writing Romantic Fiction provides all the knowledge needed to approach this increasingly marketable area with confidence.
Download or read book A Straightforward Guide to Freelance Writing written by Stephen Wade and published by Straightforward co Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect book for those who wish to concentrate on writing features and reviews for newspapers and other media. Adopting a methodical step-by-step approach, this new edition of A Straightforward Guide to Freelance Writing updates and builds on topics covered in the previous edition. The reader is given a firm grounding in the craft of writing and the book contains all the basic information needed to develop a career as a freelance writer.
Download or read book Writing About Your Life written by William Zinsser and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2005-03-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with elegance, warmth, and humor, this highly original "teaching memoir" by William Zinsser—renowned bestselling author of On Writing Well gives you the tools to organize and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narrative. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own: 13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, amusing, and often surprising moments in his long and varied life as a writer, editor, teacher, and traveler. Along the way, Zinsser pauses to explain the technical decisions he made as he wrote about his life. They are the same decisions you'll have to make as you write about your own life: matters of selection, condensation, focus, attitude, voice, and tone.
Download or read book Negative Space written by Lilly Dancyger and published by Santa Fe Writers Project. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her parents' struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger's father, Joe Schactman, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials like animal bones, human hair, and broken glass, and brought his young daughter into his gritty, iconoclastic world. She idolized him—despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence, she went into her own self-destructive spiral, raging against a world that had taken her father away. As an adult, Dancyger began to question the mythology she'd created about her father—the brilliant artist, struck down in his prime. Using his sculptures, paintings, and prints as a guide, Dancyger sought out the characters from his world who could help her decode the language of her father's work to find the truth of who he really was.
Download or read book The Situation and the Story written by Vivian Gornick and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-10-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.
