Writes of Life Using Your Personal Experiences in Everything You Write

Personal stories form the basis of most great literature'whether fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays or biography. It's all within us'the stories, experiences, dreams, adventures (and misadventures), relationships, tragedies, triumphs, loves found and broken, mountains climbed, discoveries made. Let's allow the magical, mystical storyteller to spin our thousand and one tales with complete freedom and abandon, and use our own walk as the ever-renewing foundation for our writing life.Writes of Life is a dynamic book for any creative writing or English student, from undergrads to MFAs. It features ten chapters and 112 pages of commentary and anecdotes, advice from many of the world's top writers today, core concepts, questions and more than 60 exercises designed to develop great pieces of writing from our most intrinsic source ? ourselves.Yehling, Robert L. is the author of 'Writes of Life Using Your Personal Experiences in Everything You Write', published 2006 under ISBN 9780974499772 and ISBN 0974499773.