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You Are Boring, But You Are Uniquely Boring: 25 Models for Writing Your Memoir
You Are Boring addresses every new writer’s greatest that she has nothing worth writing about, that her life is boring. With wit and wisdom, Louise Plummer and Ann Cannon, teachers and award-winning writers, guide you through 25 exercises of writing about your life. They write and then you write. They show you fast writing, then you try fast writing. They write about a first memory, then you write about a first memory. Soon you’ll become comfortable with writing about your life even if you’ve never written before. And you’ll discover that you are unique and that your life isn’t boring after all.
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125 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 31, 2017
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About the author
Louise Plummer
12Ìýbooks33ÌýfollowersLouise Plummer is a noted author young-adult fiction and a retired associate professor of English for Brigham Young University. She lives in New York, New York with her writer/professor husband Tom. Together they have four sons.
The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota. While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English. They both took positions at BYU in 1985, the same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest, leading to its publication. The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association.
Awards received by subsequent books include Her second novel, ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book for her second novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman was also an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, an Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel. Her A Dance For Three was also an ALA Best Book.
She has also written nonfiction books specifically for the Mormon audience and is a popular LDS lecturer.
--Bio courtesy of Wikipedia
The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota. While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English. They both took positions at BYU in 1985, the same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest, leading to its publication. The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association.
Awards received by subsequent books include Her second novel, ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book for her second novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman was also an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, an Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel. Her A Dance For Three was also an ALA Best Book.
She has also written nonfiction books specifically for the Mormon audience and is a popular LDS lecturer.
--Bio courtesy of Wikipedia
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October 29, 2020I'm not sure what is wrong with me but I finished this book feeling extremely, nostalgically depressed. I'm sure it must be my problem because that certainly wasn't it's intent.
April 11, 2017
Loved it!
Years ago I was in a book club where one of my “older� friends was busy taking writing and art classes from a local college � FREE for students over age 50. Alas, I was barely 40, and now that I qualify, those classes are nowhere to be found. But You Are Boring by Louise Plummer and Ann Cannon will fill that need beautifully.
This short handbook to writing your memoir is a delightful read, filled with 25 assignments that will spark your memory and get you writing. My first reading was front to back and I found myself jotting notes as ideas upon ideas unfolded. I ended up with a long list of questions to ask my parents about their lives, as well as a list of things to write about my own. Perfect.
Now I will use the chapters to write. The authors each complete the assignments too, so you can see examples of how to approach the writing � and that every life has stories to tell. Each author has a distinctive voice that is both humorous and practical, making writing your memoir seem like a very doable (and important) proposition.
Years ago I was in a book club where one of my “older� friends was busy taking writing and art classes from a local college � FREE for students over age 50. Alas, I was barely 40, and now that I qualify, those classes are nowhere to be found. But You Are Boring by Louise Plummer and Ann Cannon will fill that need beautifully.
This short handbook to writing your memoir is a delightful read, filled with 25 assignments that will spark your memory and get you writing. My first reading was front to back and I found myself jotting notes as ideas upon ideas unfolded. I ended up with a long list of questions to ask my parents about their lives, as well as a list of things to write about my own. Perfect.
Now I will use the chapters to write. The authors each complete the assignments too, so you can see examples of how to approach the writing � and that every life has stories to tell. Each author has a distinctive voice that is both humorous and practical, making writing your memoir seem like a very doable (and important) proposition.
March 2, 2018
great read, and it's getting me going on writing my stories!
March 31, 2022
Best book I have read on writing your own memoir
I am not an experienced writer and have struggled for a few years while attempting to write my life story. This book has given me several valuable, practical suggestions. The book is enjoyable, and I read it in one sitting.
I am not an experienced writer and have struggled for a few years while attempting to write my life story. This book has given me several valuable, practical suggestions. The book is enjoyable, and I read it in one sitting.
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