Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir [Paperback]

Rich, funny, and moving personal narratives depend on a few key moments in time to anchor the story and give it impact.Shimmering Imagesteaches the aspiring memoirist how to locate key memories using Lisa's technique for finding, linking, and fleshing out those vibrant recollections of important moments and situations.

Shimmering Imageswill address:
*the difference between memoir and autobiography
*how to claim your voice
*the art of storytelling
*honesty, truth, and compassion in writing
*authentic dialogue and the need for specificity

Readers will learn how to craft a short piece of narrative nonfiction grounded in their core memories and master a technique they can use over and over again for writing other narratives.

A must-have book for anyone who has treasuredBird by Birdby Anne Lamott orWriting Down the Bonesby Natalie Goldberg.

LISA DALE NORTON is the author of HAWK FLIES ABOVE. She is the founder of the Santa Fe Writing Institute and teaches writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In Shimmering Images Lisa Dale Norton traces a clear stimulating path to writing a memoir. Norton starts with the ideas behind the process, how story transforms experience on the page. She then gives the step-by-step process that she has been teaching for decadesfinding Shimmering Images (memory pictures) and weaving them into a whole. In the third part Norton looks at some of the tools to craft the process. In writing bighearted, compassionate stories, we contribute to changing the world. Nortons book is bighearted and compassionate. It is a gift to the reader. Susan Tiberghien, author of One Year to a Writing Life

This book shimmers with thought-provoking insights and truth, and Lisa Dale Norton's elegantly spare formula is a valuable addition to the literature on the topic. Even though she specifically addresses only the memoir form, her systelý