LifeWriting: Drawing from Personal Experience to Create Features You Can Publish

by Fred D. White

Book Overview

Life writing is people-centred non-fiction writing. Not just autobiographical or biographical, life writing encompasses a broad range of personal-experience narratives. Life writing can be serious or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884956335
• ISBN13: 9781884956331
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Quill Driver Books
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A survey of 'photo journalism'

Most basic writer's 'how-to' guides advise using personal experience to create memorable writing - but just how is this done? Enter Fred White's LifeWriting, a survey of 'photo journalism' focusing on how personal-experiences narratives can be created. His definition of 'lifewriting' tells how to add zest to topics by injecting a dose of personal experience tinged with personal opinion and values. The individual chapters cover everything from organizing an outline and considering themes to building the body of an essay using life experiences.