Memoir as Medicine
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Memoir as Medicine

The Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Memoir as Medicine

The Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story

About this book

A wonderfully fresh and frank guide to why and how to write personal stories that will heal, liberate, inspire — and entertain — both writer and reader Writing has been medicine for Nancy Slonim Aronie. At nine months old, her son Dan was diagnosed with diabetes. Then, at twenty-two, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. During the years she and her husband took care of Dan, and when he died at age thirty-eight, Aronie could not find the book she needed. So she wrote her memoir. In teaching memoir writing, Aronie has found that everyone has a story to tell and that telling it is important. Sharing "this is who I am, these are the things that shaped me, this is where I am now" allows a kind of magic and healing to happen. Over decades of writing and teaching, Aronie has created a set of prompts, directions, and examples that she shares in Memoir as Medicine. She shows readers how to write through where they have been and into deep understanding, profound healing, and even unexpected joy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. In the Beginning …
  8. Chapter 2. Why Write?
  9. Chapter 3. Uncertainty
  10. Chapter 4. You Don’t Have to Start at the Beginning of Your Life
  11. Chapter 5. If Your House Is Clean, You’re Not Writing
  12. Chapter 6. However You Begin, Make It Real
  13. Chapter 7. Sometimes You Have to Be Shaken, Not Stirred
  14. Chapter 8. Soul Work
  15. Chapter 9. Write about Someone You Think Is Different from You … but Maybe Isn’t
  16. Chapter 10. Turning Points and Pressure
  17. Chapter 11. You Cannot See the Gift in What You Resist
  18. Chapter 12. Seasoning the Grill
  19. Chapter 13. Write the Same Thing Several Different Ways
  20. Chapter 14. Not Everyone Is a Storyteller
  21. Chapter 15. You Will Not Be in the Room
  22. Chapter 16. Insights
  23. Chapter 17. Sometimes Our Stories Begin with a Crack
  24. Chapter 18. Your Story Will Take Many Turns, from Joy to Pain and Then Back to …?
  25. Chapter 19. Pay Attention to the Coincidences
  26. Chapter 20. Don’t Be an Expert: Be an Expert
  27. Chapter 21. Don’t Shy Away from Taboo Topics
  28. Chapter 22. Journal, Journal, and Please Journal
  29. Chapter 23. You Are Not a Reporter
  30. Chapter 24. Do Not Expect to Be Published: Expect to Be Published
  31. Chapter 25. Have Two Pockets in Your Skirt, Your Shirt, and Your Jacket
  32. Chapter 26. Solitude
  33. Chapter 27. Perspective
  34. Chapter 28. Grief
  35. Chapter 29. Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve
  36. Chapter 30. Write the Blood on the Page
  37. Chapter 31. Timing and Edginess
  38. Chapter 32. The One Line
  39. Chapter 33. Give Your Story Time to Breathe
  40. Chapter 34. Be an Eavesdropper
  41. Chapter 35. Use Dialogue
  42. Chapter 36. Vulnerability above All Else
  43. Chapter 37. Don’t Trick Your Readers
  44. Chapter 38. Etc. and So Much More
  45. Chapter 39. Accept the Possibility of Failure
  46. Chapter 40. Now Let’s Talk about Success
  47. Chapter 41. Visualization
  48. Chapter 42. Can I Just Take All My Journal Entries and Turn Them into a Book?
  49. Chapter 43. Take a Memoir-Writing Workshop
  50. Chapter 44. Anger
  51. Chapter 45. Stories Grow Right through the Cement
  52. Chapter 46. Write about Something That Shaped You
  53. Chapter 47. Read, Read, Read
  54. Chapter 48. Letters: Write Them
  55. Chapter 49. Essays
  56. Chapter 50. Write Everything
  57. Chapter 51. Quoting People
  58. Chapter 52. What If My Recollections Are Muddy?
  59. Chapter 53. You Don’t Get to Skip the Pain Part
  60. Chapter 54. Sometimes You Need an Outside Story to Be the Shift in Consciousness
  61. Chapter 55. Writing to Heal
  62. Chapter 56. Read Your Stuff Out Loud
  63. Chapter 57. You Don’t Need a Writing Studio to Write Your Memoir
  64. Chapter 58. You Can Write Like This? About Stuff Like This?
  65. Chapter 59. Too Many Crises Are Gonna Be Too Hard to Swallow
  66. Chapter 60. Humor
  67. Chapter 61. Great Writing without Going Anywhere
  68. Chapter 62. Rewriting Is Actually Where You Start
  69. Chapter 63. We’ve All Heard the Writing Advice Show, Don’t Tell
  70. Chapter 64. The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Ourselves
  71. Chapter 65. How about Serializing Your Memoir in a Blog?
  72. Chapter 66. Go to the Top
  73. Chapter 67. Fighting for What You Want
  74. Chapter 68. Conclusions on Their Way to Endings
  75. Chapter 69. Endings
  76. Acknowledgments
  77. Publication Credits
  78. About the Author