Fearless Confessions

Author : Sue William Silverman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780820336060

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Fearless Confessions by Sue William Silverman Pdf

Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper—or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and will be useful to both beginners and more accomplished writers. The rise of interest in memoir recognizes the power of the genre to move and affect not just individual readers but society at large. Sue William Silverman covers traditional writing topics such as metaphor, theme, plot, and voice and also includes chapters on trusting memory and cultivating the courage to tell one's truth in the face of forces—from family members to the media—who would prefer that people with inconvenient pasts and views remain silent. Silverman, an award-winning memoirist, draws upon her own personal and professional experience to provide an essential resource for transforming life into words that matter. Fearless Confessions is an atlas that contains maps to the remarkable places in each person's life that have yet to be explored.

Author : Kerry Cohen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599638058

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The Truth of Memoir by Kerry Cohen Pdf

Baring the Truth in Your Memoir When you write a memoir or personal essay, you dare to reveal the truths of your experience: about yourself, and about others in your life. How do you expose long-guarded secrets and discuss bad behavior? How do you gracefully portray your family members, friends, spouses, exes, and children without damaging your relationships? How do you balance your respect for others with your desire to tell the truth? In The Truth of Memoir, best-selling memoirist Kerry Cohen provides insight and guidelines for depicting the characters who appear in your work with honesty and compassion. You'll learn how to choose which details to include and which secrets to tell, how to render the people in your life artfully and fully on the page, and what reactions you can expect from those you include in your work--as well as from readers and the media. Featuring over twenty candid essays from memoirists sharing their experiences and advice, as well as exercises for writing about others in your memoirs and essays, The Truth of Memoir will give you the courage and confidence to write your story--and all of its requisite characters--with truth and grace. "Kerry Cohen's The Truth of Memoir is a smart, soulful, psychologically astute guide to first-person writing. She reveals everything you want to know--but were afraid to ask--about telling your life story." --Susan Shapiro, author of eight books including Only As Good as Your Word, and co-author of The Bosnia List

Author : M.E. Thomas
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307956668

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Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas Pdf

The memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap—right from the source—for dealing with the sociopath in your life. “[A] gripping and important book . . . revelatory . . . quite the memorable roller coaster ride.”—The New York Times Book Review As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence. Who are we? We are highly successful, noncriminal sociopaths and we comprise 4 percent of the American population.” Confessions of a Sociopath—part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious—takes readers on a journey into the mind of a sociopath, revealing what makes them tick while debunking myths about sociopathy and offering a road map for dealing with the sociopaths in your life. M. E. Thomas draws from her own experiences as a diagnosed sociopath; her popular blog, Sociopathworld; and scientific literature to unveil for the very first time these men and women who are “hiding in plain sight.”

Author : E. W. Kenyon,Don Gossett
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781603744034

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The Power of Your Words by E. W. Kenyon,Don Gossett Pdf

I agree that I have what God says in His Word that I have! If you lack anything, tend to be your own worst enemy, or fail to accomplish what you say you will do, then this book will show you how to: Have strong faith Live in the positive Possess what you confess There is nothing that equals the power of your words!

Author : Rick Renner
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781680313833

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Chosen By God by Rick Renner Pdf

You Can Fulfill the Plan of God for Your Life God has an amazing plan for your life! Do you know Gods awesome plan that He has designed especially for you? Has God ever spoken to your heart about the assignment He has called you to fulfill? If not, are you ready to discover it? Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime as you launch out to do what He has put in your heart to do? Whether you have discovered the will of God, or youre still in the process of discovery, you can rest assured that He has had a perfect plan for your life from the beginning. And try as you might, you will never find true fulfillment until youre walking in the divine purpose that is unique to only you. Your life will take on new meaning as you step out to do what you were born to do. In this book, Rick Renner shares biblical teaching and amazing experiences to show you that life doesnt have to be boring! But youre going to have to pursue, protect, and possess your purpose. Ricks teaching will encourage, strengthen, and ignite to take your place among the ranks of others who have been awakened to Gods plan. One thing is sure: God has chosen you for a divine purpose!

Author : Lori A. May
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441198228

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The Low-Residency MFA Handbook by Lori A. May Pdf

The Low-Residency MFA Handbook offers prospective graduate students an in-depth preview of low-residency creative writing MFA programs. Interviews with program directors, faculty, alumni, and current students answer the many questions prospective graduates have, including: What happens during the non-residency semester? What are the brief residencies like? What community is established between faculty and fellow students? What opportunities are there for writers to gain pedagogical training through a low-residency format? And, most importantly, is the low-residency model right for you? These questions, and more, are answered in detail. The guide also clarifies the application process and offers application tips from program directors and alumni. It also considers funding, program structures, and unique opportunities such as editorships and assistantships. For prospective graduate students looking for detailed information, The Low-Residency MFA Handbook provides a personalized and genuinely useful overview.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9966252711

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Together in Christ Form 2 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gideon A. Smart
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781462853007

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The Tongue by Gideon A. Smart Pdf

IF FAITH COMES BY HEARING, IT IS OBVIOUS THAT FAITH IS ALSO RELEASED BY SPEAKING Every word you speak with your tongue will either generate faith or fear. Faith sees opportunity and possibility in the face of apparent defeat. while fear only sees calamity and impossibility in the face of great opportunity. WORDS ARE DYNAMITE Your tongue is the most powerful weapon at your disposal, with it you can steer your life forward or backward. With your tongue you can make war as well as peace. What you say with your mouth can destroy all that you have used your entire life to build. EVERY WORD YOU SPEAK GOES A LONG WAY IN DETERMINING YOUR ETERNAL DESTINY To improve your lot, you have got to engage your tongue. In the place of lack, you can say, let there be plenty. in the place of sickness, you can say, let there be health. It is your choice.

Author : Nicole M. Rizzuto
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780823267835

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Insurgent Testimonies by Nicole M. Rizzuto Pdf

During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain’s. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H. G. de Lisser and V. S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiong’o testify to contested events in colonial modernity in ways that question premises underlying approaches in trauma and memory studies and invite us to reassess divisions and classifications in literary studies that generate such categories as modernist, colonial, postcolonial, national, and world literatures. Departing from tenets of modernist studies and from methods in the field of trauma and memory studies, Rizzuto contends that acute as well as chronic disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and extra-legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of literatures from the modernist, colonial, and postcolonial periods.

Author : Sue William Silverman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496214096

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How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences by Sue William Silverman Pdf

Many are haunted and obsessed by their own eventual deaths, but perhaps no one as much as Sue William Silverman. This thematically linked collection of essays charts Silverman’s attempt to confront her fears of that ultimate unknown. Her dread was fomented in part by a sexual assault, hidden for years, that led to an awareness that death and sex are in some ways inextricable, an everyday reality many women know too well. Through gallows humor, vivid realism, and fantastical speculation, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences explores this fear of death and the author’s desire to survive it. From cruising New Jersey’s industry-blighted landscape in a gold Plymouth to visiting the emergency room for maladies both real and imagined to suffering the stifling strictness of an intractable piano teacher, Silverman guards her memories for the same reason she resurrects archaic words—to use as talismans to ward off the inevitable. Ultimately, Silverman knows there is no way to survive death physically. Still, through language, commemoration, and metaphor, she searches for a sliver of transcendent immortality.

Author : Kate Hopper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781936740222

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Use Your Words by Kate Hopper Pdf

USE YOUR WORDS introduces the art of creative nonfiction to women who want to give written expression to their lives as mothers. Written by award-winning teacher and writer, Kate Hopper, this book will help women find the heart of their writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to write the world, and turn their motherhood stories into art. Each chapter of USE YOUR WORDS focuses on an element of craft and contains a lecture, a published essay, and writing exercises that will serve as jumping-off points for the readers’ own writing. Chapter topics include: the importance of using concrete details, an overview of creative nonfiction as a genre, character development, voice, humor, tense and writing the “hard stuff,” reflection and back-story, structure, revision, and publishing. The content of each lecture is aligned with the essay/poem in that chapter to help readers more easily grasp the elements of craft being discussed. Together the chapters provide a unique opportunity for mother writers to learn and grow as writers. USE YOUR WORDS takes the approach that creative writing can be taught, and this underscores each chapter. When students learn to read like writers, to notice how a piece is put together, and to question the choices a writer makes, they begin to think like writers. When they learn to ground their writing in concrete, sensory details and begin to understand how to create believable characters and realistic dialogue, their own writing improves. USE YOUR WORDS reflects Kate’s style as a teacher, guiding the reader in a straightforward, nurturing, and passionate voice. As one student noted in a class evaluation: “Kate is a born writer and teacher, and her enthusiasm for essays about motherhood and for teaching the nuts and bolts of writing so that ordinary mothers have the tools to write their stories is a gift to the world. She is raising the value of motherhood in our society as she helps mothers build their confidence and strengthen their game as writers.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555008212

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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924057363420

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The Christian Observer by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. Arnold Snyder,Linda A. Huebert Hecht
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780889202771

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Profiles of Anabaptist Women by C. Arnold Snyder,Linda A. Huebert Hecht Pdf

Annotation Examines women who chose to risk persecution and martyrdom to pursue the radical Protestant movement during the Reformation. Most of the 34 essays focus on a single woman, but others discuss such groups as women in the Hutterite song book, women in Tiron who recanted, and women leaders in Augsburg. The sections begin with introductions to the context of Anabaptist women in Switzerland, southern Germany and Austria, and northern Germany and the Netherlands. Canadian card order number: C96-932001-9. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Author : Ivan V. Kireevsky
Publisher : Vladimir Djambov
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS by Ivan V. Kireevsky Pdf