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    Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing
    Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing
    Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing
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    Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing

    By Jane Hertenstein

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    Suddenly we remember, triggered by a familiar smell, the taste of a cookie, the touch of soft skin. Flash, and we are back in the past. Memories. They are elusive, mysterious, with a mind of their own. If only we could harness them and turn them into memoir.

    Now you can. In the amount of time it takes to brush your teeth, you can jot down a memory to be later expanded upon or used in sequence with others. Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing will guide you in constructing a portfolio of short pieces. Random memories are the building blocks not only to memoir but to scenes which you can draw upon for other writing.

    Using a process I call write right now, I help the writer to harvest the urgency of sudden memories.The prompts in this book are designed to spur memories, to get you writing. I’ll also direct you to resources, authors to read and study, and places to submit. A number of the flash prompts included in this eBook were harvested from my blog: Memoirous

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJane Hertenstein
    Release dateMay 22, 2017
    ISBN9781370321216
    Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing
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    Jane Hertenstein

    Jane Hertenstein is the author of over 70 published stories, a combination of fiction, creative non-fiction, and blurred genre both micro and macro. In addition she has published a YA novel, Beyond Paradise, and a non-fiction project, Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady, which garnered national reviews. She is a 2-time recipient of a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. She also is in demand as a seminar teacher for Flash Memoir. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Hunger Mountain, Rosebud, Word Riot, Flashquake, Fiction Fix, Frostwriting, and several themed anthologies. She can be found at http://memoirouswrite.blogspot.com/. Her latest eBook are Freeze Frame: How To Write Flash Memoir and 365 Affirmations for the Writer.

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