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"I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty..."
At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be an only occasional-and always troubled-visitor who denies her the love she longs for.
Linda Joy Myers's...
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Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy Myers felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself. But thanks to the stories told to her by her great-grandmother, Myers received a gift that proved crucial in her life: the idea that everyone is a walking storybook, and that we all have within us the key to a deeper...
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In Journey of Memoir you will find lessons on how to write a great scene; information on the difference between freewriting and outlining, and why
you need both; timeline and turning point exercises to help create structure;
and much more. This unique workbook gives you the tools you need to begin,
develop, and complete your memoir.