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Children's Author Visit 1 - Storycatching for students, emphasizing interviewing skills
and writing.
Children's Author Visit 2 - The Writing Process from a former fourth grade teacher.
Children's Author Visit 3 - Path to Publishing - Reading my materials, sharing my
path toward publication from idea to book in hand.
Made-to-fit Children's Author Visit - Tell me your needs, I'll fit around them.
Fees: Local, no fee, but for adult programs I do request the privilege to offer my books
for sale. Travel situations, let’s talk.
The Art of Storycatching – I’ll share my experiences as a storycatcher preserving life
stories and showing how the ordinary can become the extraordinary. I will read from my
books, bringing to life all kinds of personalities I’ve uncovered.
Oral History Presentation - Not a “how to,” but a “how I…”
How I caught stories and turned them into books. What worked for me. What I would do
differently.
Memoir Writing Workshop -
Objective:
To learn steps for writing a memoir from concept to publishing.
Overview:
It’s a simple fact. The past will get lost if we don’t share it. True accounts, the fantastic
life experiences as well as the ordinary day to day stories, need to be recorded. The
Memoir Writing Workshop is designed for those who are interested in preserving precious
stories, but are unsure where to begin. The workshop starts with a look at the
possibilities, continues through researching techniques and writing ideas, and concludes
with publishing resources. This will be a time of gathering ideas and finding solutions as
participants focus on personal goals, processes and tools.
Part One – What Memoir is
Defining the life-writing genre called memoir
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Examining memoir samples currently on the market.
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Recognizing purposes for individual projects
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Identifying possible stories in our own lives or in the lives of others
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Developing lists to use as starting points.
Part Two – Researching and Gathering
Collecting information
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Diaries, letters, or scrapbooks, how to use them and where to go next
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Photographs
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Resources available in libraries and the internet
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Interviewing techniques
Part Three – Writing and Publishing
Overcoming the fear of putting the information to the paper
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Tips for organizing data and writing a rough first draft
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Emphasis on seeing the project through to publishing
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Handwritten
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Self-published physical and electronic books
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Traditional publishing houses