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Time Travel in Memoir
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Memoirs are rarely straight chronological narratives, what with the musing we talked about last episode, and they almost always jump forwards and backwards in time. We discuss Judith Barrington take the mental Time Machine from her book Writing the Memoir, specifically the idea of the “Now” and how with a little signposting, readers can follow along. We also do a bit of grammar review (just a little) and how we use tenses in our own books.
Then it’s onto the nearly ubiquitous chapter that every writing craft book has on sensory detail. We cover the difference between concrete and abstract detail and the best practices for describing characters.
This week’s exercise is some text analysis where we pick apart a short memoir timeline. Time to get our literature geek on.
Remember, we have a Writers Process meetup every Wednesday. Check us out.
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Manage episode 409089458 series 2996633
Memoirs are rarely straight chronological narratives, what with the musing we talked about last episode, and they almost always jump forwards and backwards in time. We discuss Judith Barrington take the mental Time Machine from her book Writing the Memoir, specifically the idea of the “Now” and how with a little signposting, readers can follow along. We also do a bit of grammar review (just a little) and how we use tenses in our own books.
Then it’s onto the nearly ubiquitous chapter that every writing craft book has on sensory detail. We cover the difference between concrete and abstract detail and the best practices for describing characters.
This week’s exercise is some text analysis where we pick apart a short memoir timeline. Time to get our literature geek on.
Remember, we have a Writers Process meetup every Wednesday. Check us out.
67 에피소드
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