Writing About Your Life: A Journey Into the Past [Audiobook] download free by William Zinsser
- Listen audiobook: Writing About Your Life: A Journey Into the Past
- Author: William Zinsser
- Release date: 2005/12/25
- Publisher: MARLOWE & CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781569243794
- Rating: 8.1 of 10
- Votes: 284
- Review by: Alannah Colby
- Review rating: 7.85 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/23
- Duration: 3H0M56S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-06
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MP3, WMA, WAV, MPEG-4 ALS, FLAC (compression ARC, ZIP, LZO, RAR, TZ, CAB, Z)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M25S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: An elegantly written, ingeniously constructed 'teaching memoir' that entertains and instructs readers who want to write about their own lives, from the renowned author of the million-copy-selling On Writing WellWritten with elegance, warmth, and humor, this highly original 'teaching memoir' by William Zinsser-renowned bestselling author of On Writing Well gives you the tools to organize and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narrative. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own: 13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, amusing, and often surprising moments in his long and varied life as a writer, editor, teacher, and traveler. Along the way, Zinsser pauses to explain the technical decisions he made as he wrote about his life. They are the same decisions you'll have to make as you write about your own life: matters of selection, condensation, focus, attitude, voice, and tone.'You don't have to be a writer-ore even want to be a writer-to enjoy Writing About Your Life. What I like most is its tone: warm, compassionate, concerned. William Zinsser weaves his life into his teaching narrative in a wonderful way. You learn without knowing it and are disarmed, charmed and eager to put pen to paper.'-Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis
- Other categories, genre or collection: Writing & Editing Guides, Biography: General, Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides
- Download servers: Dropbox, Mediafire, FreakShare, Uploaded, Cozy. Compressed in ARC, ZIP, LZO, RAR, TZ, CAB, Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.67 USD
- Dimensions: 139x208x17mm
- Weight: 236g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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