Share Your Journey: Mastering Personal Writing: The (Surprisingly Easy) Techniques Professional Writers Use to Write Personal Memoirs and Travel Stories That Connect with Editors and Readers
Book Details
Author(s)Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
PublisherExplorer's Eye Press
ISBN / ASIN2940573158
ISBN-139782940573158
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank8,651,310
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
You'd like to write about your hero's journey or compile your family's history.But perhaps you aren't too sure how to start your story, how to focus, how to make it interesting for other people.The Ten Writing Tips in Share Your Journey will give you the tools and confidence to write more effective blogs, write for online and print publications, and make more effective presentations.These tips have formed the basis for Paul Sochaczewski's Share Your Journey writing workshops, which he's run in some twenty countries, helping thousands of people worldwide write their personal stories.This fun and well-illustrated handbook is filled with cartoons, music and film references, and plenty of examples of good (and bad) writing.
LEARN HOW TO:
* Recognize the dynamics of your own hero's journey
* Recognize the dynamics of your own hero's journey
* Get started by writing just one scene
* Avoid the dreaded "info dump"
* Create instant intimacy with the reader
* Tell the story by following the Little Red Riding Hood Strategy
* Create conflict with the Nancy Reagan Principle
* Keep 'em hanging on with the Scheherazade Scenario
* Invoke the Story of One to represent the Story of Many
* Write like Steven Spielberg directs
* Eliminate fluff like Michelangelo
One reviewer noted that "Share Your Journey is to good writing as Joy of Cooking is to good food." Another reviewer said that "If you want your writing to leap off the page and click its heels in mid-air, read this book and follow its good advice."
The book is richly illustrated with hundreds of examples of good writing (some by famous writers, or pieces by participants in his workshops) as well as examples of clunky grind-your-teeth writing (some by published writers who should know better). Through it all, Sochaczewski explains how the writer creates elegance, how the writer shifts from cold to hot, how the writer moves the story by writing in scenes and using strong leads. Where the writing is weak he offers startlingly-easy suggestions on how the writer might have improved the piece.
One reviewer noted that "Share Your Journey is to good writing as Joy of Cooking is to good food." Another reviewer said that "If you want your writing to leap off the page and click its heels in mid-air, read this book and follow its good advice."
The book is richly illustrated with hundreds of examples of good writing (some by famous writers, or pieces by participants in his workshops) as well as examples of clunky grind-your-teeth writing (some by published writers who should know better). Through it all, Sochaczewski explains how the writer creates elegance, how the writer shifts from cold to hot, how the writer moves the story by writing in scenes and using strong leads. Where the writing is weak he offers startlingly-easy suggestions on how the writer might have improved the piece.
