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Jerry Waxler
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Memoirs offer a new approach to suffering
When Siddhartha first encountered suffering he ran away to the jungle. When I first encountered suffering, I went into a rage, determined to fix the world. Instead of changing the world, Iury, fell apart. That’s when I ran away, but not to the jungle. I ended up living in a garage in Berkeley, one step away from being homeless, starving myself and legally blind. Eventually as I repaired, I found a
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“What is it that will keep readers engaged in your story to the last page? What’s the payoff that will make them recommend it to their friends? Of course the answer varies with each book, but I believe that behind the individual answers there is a universal one. I believe that the reason people read stories is for hope, and one of the most hopeful things that can happen by the end of a memoir is that the protagonist has learned a lesson or grown in some way. So when you try to imagine how to structure your memoir, set up a challenge at the beginning that will show how you’ve grown by the end.”
― Memoir Revolution: A Social Shift that Uses Your Story to Heal, Connect, and Inspire
― Memoir Revolution: A Social Shift that Uses Your Story to Heal, Connect, and Inspire
“Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.”
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Jeannie