Rewrite Your Life

Rewrite Your Life
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Write Your Story, Heal Your Life From the author of the popular TEDx Talk, “Use Fiction to Rewrite Your Life,” comes a new life writing approach unlike any other how-to book on writing fiction. How to turn life writing into fiction.  According to common wisdom, we all have a book inside of us. But how do you select your most significant experiences to write your story―the one that helps you evolve and invites pure creativity into your life, the one that people line up to read? Creative writing professor and popular fiction author Jessica Lourey guides you through the redemptive process of writing a novel that recycles and transforms your most precious resources―your real life stories and emotions. Writing fiction from real life stories.  There’s a creative way to heal your life―writing and rewriting. Based on a method developed in the wake of a tragedy, this fact-to-fiction process doesn’t just provide the essential building blocks of best-selling books, it also transforms your life. Tender, raw, and laugh-out-loud funny,  Rewrite Your Life  offers both a map and a compass for those seeking to harvest their real life stories to craft a rich, powerful work of fiction. Inside, you’ll learn about the science of writing to heal and the magic of revision, with bonus material like: A scene by scene studyA character building tableA novel outline template If you enjoyed books like  On Writing Well ,  Your Story Matters ,  Writing Down the Bones , or  The Emotional Craft of Fiction , then you’ll love  Rewrite Your Life .

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Jessica Lourey. Rewrite Your Life

Praise for Rewrite Your Life

Contents

Introduction. TRUTH IN FICTION

Orientation

MARKERS

Recommended Packing List

PART I. THE POWER OF FICTIONALIZING YOUR LIFE

CHAPTER 1. THE SCIENCE OF WRITING TO HEAL

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CREATIVE THERAPIES

HOW NARRATIVE THERAPY WORKS

Habituation

Catharsis

Inhibition-Confrontation

REWRITING MY LIFE THROUGH FICTION

CHAPTER 2. KNOW THYSELF

WHY GOOD WRITERS ARE SELF-AWARE

CULTIVATING DEEPER SELF-AWARENESS

TRUTH BEFORE TALE

What I'm Most Scared Of

What I Am Most Proud Of

My Greatest Strengths

My Deepest Shame

What I'm Most Seeking in Life

TRUTH BEFORE TALE. Step One, Day One

Step Two, Days Two to Four. Surprise-Visit Your Brain

Step Three, Day Five. Organize

PART II. THE TOOLS OF YOUR TRANSFORMATION

CHAPTER 3. READ LIKE A WRITER

HOW TO READ LIKE A WRITER

CHAPTER 4. PICK YOUR GENRE

GENRES

Literary Fiction/Mainstream Fiction

Romance

Westerns

Horror

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Mystery

Young Adult

GENRE SELECTION

CHAPTER 5. CHOOSE YOUR NOVEL CONCEPT

A BAD IDEA

GOOD IDEAS

Carrie Fisher

Ray Bradbury

Amy Tan

RECYCLING YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES INTO NOVEL IDEAS: A TWO-STEP METHOD

Recycling Your Life Experiences. Step 1: Journal

RECYCLING YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES INTO NOVEL IDEAS #1

Step 2: Crunch the Letters

RECYCLING YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES INTO NOVEL IDEAS #2

Experiences with Strong Emotional Resonance

A Recurring Mistake

Story or Image I Can't Shake

I Wish I Had____________

A Recurring Dream

Genre I Read In

Marketable

Contains Character, Setting, Central Conflict, and Theme

Carrie Fisher

Ray Bradbury

Amy Tan

RECYCLING YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES INTO NOVEL IDEAS #3

PARTING THOUGHTS ON NOVEL IDEAS

CHAPTER 6. CRAFT COMPELLING CHARACTERS

WHERE TO FIND THE CHARACTERS

Characters from a Concept

Inspiration from the Outside World

Real People

The Subconscious

CHARACTER BUILDING #1: WHAT TO DO WITH THE CHARACTERS ONCE YOU FIND THEM

CHARACTER BUILDING #2

CHAPTER 7. STRUCTURE YOUR STORY

SUBPLOT AND BACKSTORY

PLOT AND SUBPLOT DEVELOPMENT

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

CHAPTER 8. CREATE A SENSE OF PLACE

HOW SETTING AFFECTS YOU AS A WRITER

HOW TO CREATE EPIC FICTIONAL SETTINGS

Location

Where

How

Time

Mood

SETTING CIRCLE

CHAPTER 9. PULL IT ALL TOGETHER

STEP 1: FIRST, SUMMARIZE YOUR NOVEL IN ONE SENTENCE

STEP 2: EXPAND YOUR SINGLE SENTENCE INTO A ONE-PARAGRAPH-SUMMARY

STEP 3: INVITE YOUR CHARACTERS IN

STEP 4: SKETCH YOUR SETTINGS

STEP 5: DEVELOP EACH SENTENCE IN STEP 2 INTO A FULL-PAGE DESCRIPTION

STEP 6: COMPLETE A ROUGH OUTLINE OF THE NOVEL

STEP 7: WRITE THE NOVEL

BONUS STEP

CHAPTER 10. THE MAGIC OF REVISION

CONTENT EDITING

CONTENT EDITING

LINE EDITING

OUTSIDE EDITING

LINE EDITING CHECKLIST

PART III. YOUR TRANSFORMATION

CHAPTER 11. A DAY IN THE LIFE

Afterword

SNAP PUBLISHING

TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING

SELF-PUBLISHING

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A. RECOMMENDED READING

APPENDIX B. CHARACTER-BUILDING TABLE

APPENDIX C. ESSENTIAL WRITING TERMS

APPENDIX D. NOVEL FORMAT

APPENDIX E. THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET SCENE-BY-SCENE OUTLINE

APPENDIX F. NOVEL OUTLINE TEMPLATE

Bibliography. CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

APPENDIX C

APPENDIX E

Acknowledgments

About the Author

To Our Readers

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“My favorite kind of self-help book: irreverent, personal, and superbly useful.”

—JEN MANN, New York Times best-selling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat

.....

My eyes scoured the library in a calm panic, and I was aware of my neck creaking on its hinges. I could smell only books and stillness, tinged with a faint coppery odor. Everything was in order except the dead man laid out neatly on the carpeting, wearing the same flannel I had seen him in two days earlier. I wondered chaotically if dead people could lie, if they still got to use verbs after they were gone, and if maybe this was the best excuse ever for missing a date. Then I had a full-body ice wash, five years all over again, a nightmare pinning me to my bed as I silently mouthed the word “mom.”

Had proximity to me killed him?

.....

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