Thursday, 23 April 2009
MEMOIRABELIA
"This blog is about you -sharing your past. If you want to write your memoir and benefit from encouragement and support from me and other interested writers-then this is the place to start. I post bulletins of my memoir and then you just follow on.....
Remember, memoirs are very often flat and have less meaning for modern readers. This Blog is about bringing your experiences to life, so that rather than events remaining as significant points in time to you alone -you bring them to life by plotting development of characters and storyline and conflict-for everyone to share.
Example:
'It is summer and I have left the wonders of ‘The Downs’school far behind. I spend every day on the beach. I love the sun and sea air on my body. The sounds of people, their feet shuffle the shingle as they tramp and trudge their furrows between the groynes. The noise of
traffic groans along the Kings Road overlooking the promenade. I spend my time walking along the beach surrounded by the swell and smell of human traffic, the movement of bodies socializing somehow reaffirms that I belong to the human race. I soak up the atmosphere. I am addicted to this taste of freedom.
I smell the intoxicating aroma of freshly baked toffee apples in the salt air. Instant hunger pangs are triggered by the sound of ice cream vendors and deckchair merchants as they announce their wares and trudge to and fro on the hot baked shingle.........'
from 'A Mother to Kill a Son'.......
In this exerpt I am setting the scene,describing Nicky' Fowlers experience as a child.
Now its your turn.Tag your memoir exerpt to comments..........
Ross Martin,author
http://chipmunkapublishing.co.uk/shop
http://www.brightonboy.co.uk/5.html
Remember, memoirs are very often flat and have less meaning for modern readers. This Blog is about bringing your experiences to life, so that rather than events remaining as significant points in time to you alone -you bring them to life by plotting development of characters and storyline and conflict-for everyone to share.
Example:
'It is summer and I have left the wonders of ‘The Downs’school far behind. I spend every day on the beach. I love the sun and sea air on my body. The sounds of people, their feet shuffle the shingle as they tramp and trudge their furrows between the groynes. The noise of
traffic groans along the Kings Road overlooking the promenade. I spend my time walking along the beach surrounded by the swell and smell of human traffic, the movement of bodies socializing somehow reaffirms that I belong to the human race. I soak up the atmosphere. I am addicted to this taste of freedom.
I smell the intoxicating aroma of freshly baked toffee apples in the salt air. Instant hunger pangs are triggered by the sound of ice cream vendors and deckchair merchants as they announce their wares and trudge to and fro on the hot baked shingle.........'
from 'A Mother to Kill a Son'.......
In this exerpt I am setting the scene,describing Nicky' Fowlers experience as a child.
Now its your turn.Tag your memoir exerpt to comments..........
Ross Martin,author
http://chipmunkapublishing.co.uk/shop
http://www.brightonboy.co.uk/5.html
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