I wasn’t shocked when James Frey’s memoir A Million Little Pieces turned out to be a falsification of the facts of his life. It didn’t surprise me because I hadn’t believed much about the book in the first place. Why? Because the writer right away failed one of the most basic of storytelling tests: Are these events even plausible? Frey’s book, in fact, was so riddled with such over-the-top events and unlikely coincidences that … [Read more...]
Having Trouble Viewing this Email? Click Here to View it In Your Internet Browser In this Issue: Welcome & Updates 2012 Events New Advisory Board Members Other Important Events Books to Feed Your Writing Soul Spirited Woman January 2012 Writing Prompts Resources NAMW Website Benefits of Membership Login to Member's Area Read Stories in the NAMW Cafe The … [Read more...]
Member Teleseminar January 27th 2012, 11 AM PST Memoir and Fiction—Genre Bending—Will the Memoir Police Arrest You? There have been so many debates about “the rules” of memoir—with a strict notion that everything must be accurate and provable, especially since the fracas with James Frey and Oprah—though all has been forgiven by now. Yet the debate continues, with some memoir writers insisting that they ARE being completely accurate—to THEIR memory of what happened and how … [Read more...]
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