Writing Your Transcendent Change: Memoir With Marion Roach Smith

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Memoir can be one of the most challenging forms to write, but it can also be the most rewarding.
36:33 - Interview starts
Marion Roach Smith talks about facing your fears, as well as giving practical tips on structuring and writing your memoir.
In the intro, Amazon's category changes [KDP Help; Kindlepreneur; Publisher Rocket]; Book description generation with AI; Thoughts on New Zealand and how the river forks; AI is about to turn book publishing upside down [Publishers Weekly] - www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...
Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Plus, Japan and copyright for AI training; Microsoft rolls out Designer to Teams; Google Docs text generation with Bard [Ethan Mollick]; Photoshop and generative fill [NY Times]; Drug discovery with AI [BBC; Alpha Fold]; Amazon generative search job listing [Venture Beat]; ChatGPT official app; My webinars on using AI - www.thecreativepenn.com/live/
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Marion Roach Smith is an author, memoir coach and teacher of memoir writing. She has online courses on writing memoir and hosts the Qwerty Podcast about memoir. Her books include The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life.
Discovering what to shape your memoir around
The writing process of memoir
Deciding on the structure of your memoir
The importance of the title to convey your book's message
Fears faced when writing memoir and how to overcome them
How to know when your memoir is finished
Traditional vs. indie for publishing your memoir
You can find Marion at www.MarionRoach.com
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@jaqhare Жыл бұрын

Your last three episodes have been transformational for me.

@thecreativepenn Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, I'm glad the show is resonating with you.

@bethbonness 8 ай бұрын

What a great podcast! After reading Marion’s book, The Memoir Project, listening to the questions, allowed me to think about what I’ve learned. My remaining wrestling has to do with the deepening of “what I learned after what I went through.” Maybe that’s something after more passes of being in the moment will be revealed in the epilogue. I’ve been analyzing other memoirs to see how much time passed from when they answered their argument, and when they decided to write the book to see how they handled the gap of insight. Any other suggestions would be welcomed :-)

@thecreativepenn 8 ай бұрын

Thanks, Beth, and I have just recorded an interview for Marion's podcast, QWERTY where she shares more tips, so definitely have a listen over there. In terms of time gaps, it varies for people - mine was pretty soon after, but Wild by Cheryl Strayed was decades later I think.

@bethbonness 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'll check it out. And relook at Wild too :)

@bethbonness 8 ай бұрын

Do you know when it airs Joann? @@thecreativepenn

@brendanmatrix9393 Жыл бұрын

Great Cast

@donnas977 Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to reading Pilgrimage - just ordered your ebook 😊

@thecreativepenn Жыл бұрын

Thankyou! I hope you enjoy it!

@theatheistpaladin Жыл бұрын

Don't be a doom sayer, be a doom slayer.

@invisibelle7590 Жыл бұрын

Lol the ony job left soon will be the ones we were so worried about losing; supermarkets, care etc. Those who made AI said 'yes, it will probably bring about the end of the world, bt we wil hae some cool companies in the meantime., which t be frank, is not a good sign. Personally, I think we could prolly replace governments and finance with it, it might do better...

@thecreativepenn Жыл бұрын

There will be new kinds of work, for sure. My own way of working is transforming. I'm excited, not worried!