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From legal and privacy issues to finding time and inspiration to write to locating critical readers to pitching your finished work for publication this collection of essays uncovers the myriad issues likely to come up for writers tackling the intimate subject of family

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The best advice in this book is practical martha engber on revealing ones family secrets without getting sued dahlma llanosfigueroas essay on fictionalizing family stories to avoid family coercion

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There is nothing wrong with pursuing writing as means to survive violence through expression

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The specificity behind women writing on familys premise is also its strength this collection very exhaustively tackles specific and uncharted terrain

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Writers grappling with the thorny issues that surround writing about families will find help in this longoverdue volume of 55 essays by published writersexperts on family writing

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For experienced writers now and then using the retrospective narrator in memoir explains the subtle but critical distinction between protagonist and narrator or main character and storyteller both of whom are the writer

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I wish the book had gone through one final nitpicky edit to eliminate small distracting errors in the text like a few weird sentence fragments and misplaced quotation marks

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Supporting women in their writing pursuits is something that many small writing clubs do throughout the country