The Soul of Telling Your Story
Chief Blonde Remarks: Did you ever try to organize your photos online or even in photo albums? Did you struggle with what organizational approach to take when laying out the pictures of your life? Chronologically? By event? By person? And what do you throw out and what do you keep? Should you scrapbook the pictures or just put them in order in a photo album or just throw them in a box and walk away? Well that’s exactly what it is like to write your memoirs but a whole lot harder. If you really have a story to tell, Write Your Memoirs
The Publisher says:
Of all forms of writing, the memoir is perhaps most personal. In Write Your Memoir, The Soul Work of Telling Your Story, literary professor and author Dr. Allan Hunter, demonstrates a compassionate understanding of the writing process. The book is intended to assist, educate and inspire those who wish to write their memoirs. For over 30 year, Dr. Hunter has guided hundreds of people who wished to tell their stories to an honest exploration of their lives and in this manual he lays out how to do it. Anyone, who picks up this book, learns within the first few pages that Hunter cares about writers, understands the process and knows how to encourage and create honest and genuine results.
Dr. Hunter’s approach is an unusual one in that he advocates something he calls ‘soul work’, a psychic process that involves exploring the inner experience of the writer. Hunter shows that writing one’s memoir can move the writer to a different relationship with him or herself and their past. The book offers exercises and resources to clarify those experiences thereby resulting in a richer story, a more fully realized memoir and a profoundly changed writer. This is Dr. Hunter’s fifth book and as always his clear style is filled with humor, insight and sensitivity.