tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766637615653605306.post6069233695009161576..comments2024-02-09T17:38:25.502-07:00Comments on Classics and Beyond: Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir by Beth KephartAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14777243283548102053noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766637615653605306.post-67055176740486745932014-08-02T21:02:50.955-06:002014-08-02T21:02:50.955-06:00Sounds good to me. :) There are some really good e...Sounds good to me. :) There are some really good exercises in there. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14777243283548102053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766637615653605306.post-21229900511557646202014-08-02T21:01:41.015-06:002014-08-02T21:01:41.015-06:00Perhaps that's one way to look at it. I do thi...Perhaps that's one way to look at it. I do think personal history is more similar to autobiography, but I also think that if people are really trying to make it readable, then they might want to write it more like a memoir. (But I disagree with Kephart--I think autobiographies can be interesting. But usually not as interesting as memoir.) The best way to understand memoir, as I think Kephart says too, is to read it. She has suggestions in the back of her book, and I can recommend a few, too, if you like. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14777243283548102053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766637615653605306.post-25991773282349960272014-08-02T15:34:21.501-06:002014-08-02T15:34:21.501-06:00So far I agree that she tries to be poetic. Someti...So far I agree that she tries to be poetic. Sometimes it's annoyingly irrelevant, but other times it's fun to unravel the deeper meanings that the poetry beautifully conveys.<br /><br />My hope is to not take too many "expectations" from her, just encouraging ideas; I don't need to feel like my own writing must be perfect. So for now, I've skipped the 6 pages of 750-word descriptions by her students of what they expect from memoir. Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11778518909409811631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766637615653605306.post-52081307351288797212014-08-02T15:26:27.697-06:002014-08-02T15:26:27.697-06:00OK, I haven't yet learned to separate these th...OK, I haven't yet learned to separate these things. Ms. Kephart seems to think autobiography is boring, but what's personal history? Is that also just the facts of your life, laid out like a historian? And I guess I still don't understand what memoir is. Perhaps it's like taking a subset of the dishes from the buffet of your own memories, and arranging them thematically on their own table?Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11778518909409811631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766637615653605306.post-18851595546871188562014-07-28T10:19:51.384-06:002014-07-28T10:19:51.384-06:00Keep in mind, though, that personal history is tot...Keep in mind, though, that personal history is totally different from memoir. :) But I think this book would definitely help with writing personal history, too. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14777243283548102053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766637615653605306.post-39173860447559619072014-07-27T17:23:26.071-06:002014-07-27T17:23:26.071-06:00I'm going to have to pick this book up and see...I'm going to have to pick this book up and see if I like her ideas. I'm almost at a quarter century and just read part of the memoir of one Bro. Christianson, so I'm almost ripe for writing my personal history. I'm sure I'll have questions this Ms. Kephart could answer!Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11778518909409811631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766637615653605306.post-56421381306028567732014-06-26T21:40:14.772-06:002014-06-26T21:40:14.772-06:00This sounds really interesting!This sounds really interesting!Reading in the Darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13812641480668564435noreply@blogger.com