RENO, Nev., December 9, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Everyone lives a different life with unique experiences and thoughts. However, most people don't think their lives are worth talking about, let alone writing about. Carol Petersen Purroy disagrees. Her new book, Your Life Oughta Be a Book: Write the Stories of Your Life (now available through 1stBooks), shows readers how they can write their lives into an engaging memoir.
Your Life Oughta Be a Book addresses the increasingly popular trend of memoir writing. Inspired by classes Purroy teaches on autobiographical writing, the book provides inspiration and motivation and the technical knowledge needed to write life stories that everyone will want to read. Purroy offers assurance to each reader that their life is worth chronicling and gives practical tips to help relieve some of the prospective writer's anxiety. Several pages of possible topics are intended to jog memories and give readers ideas on where to start.
Your Life Oughta Be a Book shows how to use "paradox and inconsistency" to hook the reader, how to "seduce" them so they continue to flip pages and how to spice up the stories with simile, metaphor, modifiers, "curve balls," cliffhangers and interesting dialogue. It also explains how to weave these items into a story using poetic license.
For anyone thinking of writing a memoir who doesn't believe their story is worth telling, Your Life Oughta Be a Book will be the perfect stepping stone to highly engaging personal pieces of history.
Purroy has been a publisher, editor and chief writer in addition to teaching kindergarten through high school grades, college and community adult classes. She continues to be a life strategy educator, a disaster relief worker and an entrepreneur. She has taught a class on memoir writing since 1991 and is currently producing the Your Life Oughta Be a Book class on video and DVD, soon to be available on her Web site, www.yourlifesabook.com.
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