As someone who has written a memoir, I tell all my memoir students that writing a book about your life is one of the hardest challenges you can take on as a writer. You think it's going to be easy. It's your life after all. The problem is that because you know what happened, si...
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This writing event is a wonderful opportunity to get intense instruction over the course of one day,pitch a literary agent or editor(optional), get your questions answered, and more. Note that there are limited seats at the event (225 total). All questions about the event regarding schedule,...
Chrisinger explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way. Weaving together his journey as a writer, editor, and teacher, he reveals his own deeply personal story of family trauma and abuse and explains how his life ...
Yet it can be a powerful coping tool for many, in large part because it helps combat the secrecy people often feel about a trauma, as well as their reluctance to face emotions. “The more you avoid a problem, the...
Blog Ray Bradbury’s “The Lake”: Processing Trauma Through Writing Blog Infamous book burnings of history Blog Rip Van Winkle: Long Sleep, Short Story “Rip Van Winkle” is the story of a man who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes to find that the world has moved on without him....
This writing event is a wonderful opportunity to get intense instruction over the course of one day,pitch a literary agent or editor(optional), get your questions answered, and more. Note that there are limited seats at the event (200 total). All questions about the event regarding schedule,...
“Croggon’s humbly exquisite prose weaves splendor into everything, from spells of magery and the frightening, otherworldly realm that the protagonists must tread to the regular World’s aesthetic beauty and human emotion (grief, shame, terror, trauma)…Magnificent yet intimate, dark yet tender.”...
It has been an uphill struggle, because as George Monbiot points up, the trauma (创伤,外伤) of the privileged has little political purchase. We strongly welcome Monbiot´s call for the issue to get the public policy attention it deserves....
As someone who has written a memoir, I tell all my memoir students that writing a book about your life is one of the hardest challenges you can take on as a writer. You think it's going to be easy. It's your life after all. The problem is that because you know what happened, si...