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The Photo Scribe - A Writing Guide: How to Write the Stories Behind Your Photographs

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Denis Ledoux

Crafts & Hobbies

Soleil Press

A Sugary Frosting / A Memoir of A Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage and How I Survived Being a Preacher's Kid This memoir reveals an underside of being the preacher's kid, a public role that is rife with challenges of supporting your minister father and your minister's-wife mother and of becoming yourself, a person they may not have expected to come out of their household. Relationships in this memoir are portrayed honestly and sometimes not flatteringly. A Sugary Frosting, a phrase derived from Martha's journals, is a memoir of surviving religious idealism and inherited belief to undertake to become one’s self. WHAT YOU'LL ENJOY A Sugary Frosting is a step through the 1950s and 1960s that will bring the life of those years to the fore—at least as it was lived in a parsonage. In its pages, you will observe: • the viciousness of the "White Church" whose members sent hate notes to the minister. • the minister's little girl showing her rosebud petticoat to the church ladies. • women going to church wearing gloves—even in summer. • the minister's daughter smoking pot and telling her parents it was incense. • what it can feel like to be a superior lyric soprano and not wanting to sing. • going to an elite private school and hating it. • being bullied by a high school teacher. • living a life where everything had to be nice-nice. • her parents' anti-war protests that lead to being dismissed from a pulpit These—and more—stories, told artfully and insightfully, will keep you reading long past when you should be asleep. In A Sugary Frosting / A Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage, the hero comes to the realization that the religious beliefs she has inherited do not fit comfortably. From early on, she wonders "What does it mean 'to love Jesus?'" She struggles to make belief and experience mesh but as she writes, "I was too young to understand, but I knew my own experience and not belief had to be my guide." Download A Sugary Frosting / A Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage now. The financial investment is small, and the pleasures are great. Scroll to the top of this page and select the "buy" button now.

A Sugary Frosting: A Memoir of a Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage

Biographies & Memoirs

Ledoux, Denis

Blowen, Martha

Community & Culture

Turning Memories Into Memoirs contains countless helpful suggestions for remembering--researching--organizing--collecting and writing memories and family or personal stories. It includes 
* how-to writing exercises * clear explanation of literary techniques * proven motivational supports and * examples from the workshops. 
Turning Memories is a useful reference and guide for both beginners and experienced writers who want to write personal and family stories. 
Revised and Expanded New Edition includes-- 
* advice on how to establish and maintain a writing life * info about how to craft a unified collection from individual stories * insider tips about self-pubishing options * guidance to explore archetypes to inform your characterization * advice on how to use the Internet to build a wider historical context for your memoirs * 16 all new example lifestories from Turning Memories® participants and affiliate teachers * an updated bibliography * a total of 272 pages * 200+ photos

Turning Memories Into Memoirs: A Handbook for Writing Lifestories

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This memoir which spans most of the 20th century is the portrait of an ordinary man who was extraordinary in so many ways. Willie E. Lowther s was a life lived with faith, courage, and insight that transcended its limitations. Early 1930 finds young Willie Lowther up North wondering what is to become of his life. The country is in the grips of the Depression, and work is at a minimum. After months of wrenching unemployment, his break comes when he is hired to cut hair. In the next decade, as so many blacks of his generation, he struggled to make a living and a life for himself in Harlem. Over the years, his talent, faith and perseverance prove sufficient to make real his dreams. In this moving book that encapsulated the struggles of an earlier generation of African-Americans, we observe Willie Lowther being mentored by a generous widow who recognizes his potential and nurtures its development. Eventually he becomes owner of the very barbershop where he got his break and buys a second shop, himself hiring and mentoring a number of young barbers, many fresh out of the South. Over the years, we cheer as the shy boy who had traveled North to find his fortune realizes his potential to become a successful businessman, church deacon, and community leader. But this is not only the story of a man s public life and assumption of responsibilities. It also a story of Willie Lowther s personal religious faith and of his dedication to family. Evocative of the struggles of a generation to whom the African-American community owes so much, gripping in their portrait of determination to succeed, delightful in their depiction of a deeply-lived personal life, the various segments of this well-crafted memoir will reflect the depth and richness of this multitalented man. Willie E. Lowther / The Journey of My Life / from Locust Grove to Harlem is an important addition to the literature of African-American migration and adaptation. Hastie Lowther has written a warm and insightful account of her husband s long and productive life. Herself from North Carolina, she readily understood the accomplishments of this man with whom she shared almost a half century of married life. In this memoir, she has sought to record his life for future generations to enjoy and benefit from. A few years before his death, the couple sat down to tape his stories. Subsequently, Mrs. Lowther added an historical and sociological dimension to make Willie E. Lowther / The Journey of My Life / from Locust Grove to Harlem a story that will enrich our understanding and appreciation of the contributions of an earlier generation.

Willie E. Lowther / The Journey of My Life / from Locust Grove to Harlem

Hastie N. Lowther

START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT / Stop asking yourself if you should write your memoir, find inspiration to begin, and learn techniques of the art of memoir writing that will impel you to succeed. To start writing your memoir with a bang, explore—before you invest too much time and energy in beginning to write a memoir—if this idea of yours to compose a memoir is a right choice or a misfire. You answer can both save you grief if it is a misfire and set you on a strong start if it is a right choice. As a long-time writing coach, Denis Ledoux has helped many writers grapple with this question. START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT is a writing guide that distillates his years of coaching and teaching memoir writing skills. His expert advice on launching the memoir writing process will focus your inquiry and save you much time and energy. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT is a step-by-step guide that will help you both decide whether or not you should write a memoir and with what to do with a positive answer. You will learn many techniques for setting yourself up for success. You will learn: •why you need an answer to why you should—or should not—write a memoir. •what your biggest challenge is likely to be—hint: it's not finding time. •why writing an autobiography, rather than a memoir, is probably not a good idea. •what tasks you absolutely must do before you start to write. •how to assess if you have enough writing supports and, if not, how to get enough. •how to mine your journal to bring depth to your memoir. These—and more—best writing practices will power start you to write your memoir. START YOUR MEMOIR Right lays out a clear writing path as to why you should or should not write your memoir, where to find inspiration to begin, and explains how to learn techniques of the art of memoir writing that will impel you to succeed. •Each step for assessing whether you should or should not be writing a memoir is clearly and simply presented. •You will learn why each step in the decision-making process is important in itself and how to implement it. •Doing this work now will ease the writing process later. •The steps in this book will prepare you to write the best memoir you are capable of—or not write, if that is what you should do. Even if you were to decide not to write a memoir, the modest purchase price for this book will be a great investment. Think of the time and energy you will have saved! …concise, yet full of good ideas and new approaches. — Joyce Putnam Eblen THE MEMOIR NETWORK WRITING SERIES Whether you are writing a memoir, creative non-fiction, or fiction, the suggestions in this book—as those in the other books in the Memoir Network Writing Series—are applicable. Our Don't Let Writer's Block Stop You shows you how you can let writer's block teach you how to push beyond stuck. Our Write to the End / Eight Strategies to Thrive as a Writerwlll help you to complete your writing projects and reach the audiences you deserve. Other how to write titles are forthcoming. Download START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT now. The financial investment is small, and the writing rewards are great.

Start Your Memoir Right: Strategies for an Effective Writing Launch (Books for Memoir Writers)

Arts & Literature

First Comes Love is a book of photographs and love stories that celebrates the lives and enduring relationships of LGBTQ couples from across the U.S. This is the story of our times! The brainchild of Philadelphia photographer Barbara Proud, the book is just one element of the First Comes Love Project, a traveling exhibition of photographs, love stories and video interviews documenting LGBTQ couples who have been together for 10, 20, 30, 40, and even 50+ years. First Comes Love seeks to change attitudes, open hearts, and propel the marriage equality movement simply by introducing and sharing the love stories of 65 real American long-term same-sex couples. By doing so, Proud hopes to educate those outside of the LGBTQ community, while celebrating those who are a part. "First Comes Love has it right," says supporter Evan Wolfson, President of Freedom to Marry. "It's the faces and stories of real people that open hearts and minds and pave the way to legal and social change." "First Comes Love is more than a book of beautiful photography, it's an essential document," says HRC President, Chad Griffin. "It testifies to a moment in history that all of us made possible and none of us will ever forget-when our community left the closet for good, and equality finally became a mainstream American value."

FIRST COMES LOVE: Portraits of Enduring LGBTQ Relationships

Arts & Photography

B. Proud

Photography & Video

One moment life was sunny and carefree. In the next, it was stormy and chaotic. That's what happened to twenty-year-old Susannah as she stood on the front porch of her childhood home and witnessed a tree fall on her father during a fast-moving thunderstorm. As she grieved his passing, post-traumatic stress disorder quickly developed and took over all aspects of her life. Peace with Trees, her story of how she learned to live peacefully with PTSD while discovering a new purpose, is sure to inspire anyone who has ever experienced unimaginable trauma.

Peace with Trees: A Memoir

Self-Help

Pitman, Susannah

Death & Grief

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