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Your Life as Story | 
 enlarge | Author: Tristine Rainer
Publisher: Tarcher
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 88238
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Trade Paperback Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0874779227
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06692
EAN: 9780874779226
ASIN: 0874779227
Publication Date: April 13, 1998
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Every person's life tells a story, but few of us dare to consider our own story worthy of being written. Tristine Rainer shows us how to apply the structure of story telling to an ordinary life to give it shape, meaning, and clarity. Learning the tricks to becoming a better autobiographic writer may not lead to getting published, nor should that be the goal. Rather, it is a process that helps us re-remember the past so that we can better understand the meaning of the present.
Book Description
In Your Life As Story, autobiography expert Tristine Rainer explains how we can all find the important messages in our lives. Like Mary Karr or Frank McCourt, we can shape those stories into dramatic narratives that are compelling to others. Blending literary scholarship with practical coaching, Rainer shares her remarkable techniques for finding the essentials of story structure within your life's scattered experiences. Most important, she explains how to treasure the struggles in your past and discover the meaning within those experiences to capture the unique myth at work in your life.
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 Beautiful and insightful August 8, 2008
This book is beautifully and thoughtfully written. It has given me a different twist on writing my story. I have used it for examples in teaching my classes.
 Buy this book if you're writing a memoir May 19, 2008
This is THE book for anyone struggling with the structure of a memoir. I've been working on mine for three years. If I had read Tristine Rainer's book before I started, I could have saved myself the first two.
Telling Painful Life Stories January 25, 2008
Ranier is a pioneer in the approach to autobiography that encourages writers to exorcise psychic ghosts as they reflect on their experiences. She also explores the tricky relationship between fiction and non-fiction in creating a truthful life story, encouraging writers to use fiction techniques to tell deep or difficult truths (but not to try to fool readers: let them know that fact and fantasy will mingle in the memoir).
Wonderfully written techniques.... September 16, 2007
This book does not disappoint. There is something for everyone in this book whether you are an amateur writer or seasoned writer. You will discover a lot about yourself by the end of the book, and her writing style is superb. I give this book my highest recommendation.
Pick out the high spot June 23, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Tristine Rainer's book takes the writer of autobiographical scraps to another level. She defines a memoir, lets you know that's what you really want to write, and tells you how to choose the part of your life to assemble into the memoir. What did you learn from? What's the peak experience, high or low? Build from there! Her advice could seem self-evident, but in reading memoirs, I wish more had been written with her structural advice in mind. Even David Sedaris, who sends me rolling on the floor, writes books that vary from boring to spendid, without that arc of story that I respond so well to when I read memoirs. Read this one and take it to heart, memoirists of the world!
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