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Lists of Books Referenced in Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s & Mary E. Knippel’s “Be Your Own Editor” session at SFWC
Tool #1 Grounding Reader with the four Ws (Who? When? Where? What?) “What does Protagonist want?” (in prescriptive nonfiction “What does Reader need?”)
Tool #2 Hooking Reader from first page to last with core themes.
Tool #3 In Fiction & Narrative Nonfiction (both genres are forms of “story-telling”) — Who are your protagonist, antagonist(s), and other archetypes?
Fiction:
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Lost In Yonkers – a play by Neil Simon
Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer! children’s picture book by Frances Kawugawa
Love Made of Heart – mother-daughter novel by Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Charlotte’s Web – a children’s classic by E. B. White
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever by Judith Marshall
Narrative Nonfiction:
Woven of Water by Luisa Adams
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Secret Artist – Give Yourself Permission to Let Your Creativity Shine! by Mary E. Knippel
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother – anthology edited by Kate Farrell
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
A Joyful Encounter: My Mother, My Alzheimer Clients, and Me by Lynn Scott
A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams (poetry) by Joan Gelfand
Prescriptive Nonfiction:
Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life – photo/gift book by Margie Yee Webb
Break Through the Noise: 9 Tools to Propel Your Marketing Message by Elisa Sasa Southard
My Dreams: A Simple Guide to Dream Interpretation by Angie Choi
Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW by Teresa LeYung-Ryan
The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master by Martha Alderson
TellTale Souls Writing the Mother Memoir: How To Tap Memory and Write Your Story Capturing Character & Spirit by Lynn Cook Henriksen
Correct Me If I’m Wrong: Getting Your Grammar, Punctuation, and Word Usage Right! by Arlene Miller
Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books by Frances Caballo
The Book Reviewer Yellow Pages: A Book Promotion Reference Guide for Authors and Small Press Publishers by Christine Pinheiro e-book published by http://www.stepbystepselfpublishing.net
How to Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen
The Power of Memoir by Linda Joy Myers
Marriage Meeting Starter Kit by Marcia Naomi Berger
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Secret Artist – Give Yourself Permission to Let Your Creativity Shine! by Mary E. Knippel
Also, please refer to the SFWC list of presenters
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3 Top Tools for Editing Your Manuscript After You’ve Written Your First Draft with Coach Teresa
· April 10, 2013 at 10:30am Pacific Time / 1:30pm Eastern Time
· April 25, 2013 at 4:30pm Pacific Time / 7:30pm Eastern Time
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan cares about helping fiction and nonfiction writers build their platforms and work on their craft simultaneously with ease. She says: “Wear the dual hats as promoter and writer and be happily published. Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
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I read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein this week. This timeless tale ( Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus) was first published in 1818 in England.
Identifying the themes in our personal lives and gaining an understanding of the archetypes in ourselves make for powerful stories. Summon the muse and you have a compelling novel or memoir. What are the themes & archetypes in Mary Shelley‘s novel?
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Sincerely,
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan
I use Love Made of Heart to:
- celebrate immigrants
- inspire adult-children of mentally-ill parents to speak openly about the stigmas that their parents suffer
- help survivors of family violence find their own voices through writing