Tag: nonfiction
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Using Structure in Memoir Writing
In grad school I had a professor who used to refer to memoir as “Me-Moir,” pointing out the egotistical nature of the genre. We all had a good laugh whenever she said it, although most of us had probably dabbled in writing memoir. I certainly had. My first real attempt at writing was a hundred…
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Handling the Truth By John Scherber
Jack Nicholson famously said to Tom Cruise in the 1992 movie A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth!” This line has a resonance that survives today––a remarkable feat for a statement that is fundamentally untrue. Because at a personal level, there is no single ongoing truth to be handled. The reality is that…