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Creative nonfiction for those students in g11 this can help to understand

1. THE LIFE STORIES 4 TH QUARTER | WEEK 1

2. The story of one’s life can be told three ways: as a memoir, biography, or autobiography. If you write about your life, it is either a memoir or autobiography. If someone else has written about your life, it is biography. These three sub-genres of life story look at who we are as humans and the life we have lived.

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4. MEMOIR ( A partial story of the author’s life) Memoir is the French word for memory. To write a memoir is to write what you remember. In a memoir, you become the narrator and the main character. You are the central force of the life story as you recount what happened in the past and what it means to you in the “now.” In a memoir, you assume the first point of view. You are the “I .”

5. A memoir is deeply rooted in one’s personal experience , which makes it similar to autobiography. In fact, memoir and autobiography are sometimes used interchangeably. If your life is a cake, a memoir is only a slice of that cake. As with a cake you can cut your life into more than one slice, thus coming up with several memoirs. Each slice represents a different time in your life.

6. Tips in Writing a Memoir :

7. 1. Keep in mind that a memoir is NOT an autobiography. The autobiography is the story of your entire life, a memoir is just one part of that life. There can be countless memoirs in one’s life but there can only be one autobiography.

8. 2. Make a diagram of your life. Feel free to remember pivotal moments of your life. Become nostalgic and list at least ten events in your life, a friend or a relative can help, at least one of those ten will be a stand out. Focus on this moment and tell that story.

9. 3. Think “un-chronologically”. Sometimes it is boring for readers to read the beginning of a story because it is too predictable. A good beginning will always hook the reader in finishing a story. Sometimes a little bit of mystery can help as it unfolds the story to life. Then, it will take the reader back to the chronological beginning and paint the background.

10. 4. Entice the senses. The best writers can create vivid images in the mind of the readers by using such descriptive words. Write vividly by using all your senses to transport yourself and the readers to your world. Practice your descriptive writing by being observant to the textures, smells, temperatures, and the colors around you.

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12. AUTOBIOGRAPHY (THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE AUTHOR’S LIFE) As a term, autobiography is a combination of three Greek words: autos (self), bios( life), and graphe ( writing). Simply defined, autobiography spans the life of the writer from birth to the present. Early childhood has already prepared us to tell an autobiography. No wonder we have a literary mind !

13. In middle age, when you have lived half of your life, you begin to reflect on your failures and accomplishment. By this time, you began to think if your story line fits with how you planned it in the past and how it turned out in the present. For some, life may have become better than before. For others, it might have turned out worse, and it might inspire them to change their story line by making their life better. By the time you reach old age, or nearing the end of life, it will become clear to you that your life story has a beginning, a middle, and ending .

14. Tips in Writing Autobiography :

15. 1. Be honest - This is the story of your own life therefore you should not lie to yourself and the readers. Do not embellish any part of your life and deviate from pure exaggeration.

16. 2. Begin with an outline – Writers have so many stories to tell and getting confused on what to write first will be your worst enemy. Create an outline about the moments in your life that you want to include in your story, always arrange it chronologically. With an outline, you will have a guide in your writing process.

17. 3. Show your natural self – Be yourself while writing your autobiography because it will show in your story. Be anything but yourself. Do not pretend. If you are dull then be it. Moments in your life comes naturally, so why change your life just to become interesting?

18. 4. Keep something to yourself – Yes an autobiography tells the whole truth about your life but it doesn’t necessarily mean that the readers can have access to your innermost being or your private thoughts. If you want to write something uncomfortable, then use social media; isn’t that what it is for?

19. 5. Try not to be too bitter – As the protagonist of your life story, there are some antagonists too. But the villains in your life also need respect. Do not write something that may cause harm to others because the last thing you want is a court trial.

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21. BIOGRAPHY (A LIFE STORY BY ANOTHER WRITER) Simply, a biography is a literary work that tells the overall life story of a person of interest through the eyes of another writer. Instead of just focusing on detailed facts of a person’s life, the biography centers on the important events and specific time, dates, and people in the life of the character. Extensive research should be done by the person who would like to tell another person’s life. Accuracy of facts should be taken in mind and knowing the character personally is a great factor in making a biography .

22. Writing a biography involves more than mere facts like education, relatives, relationships, and death. The writer should not only show who the subject is but also how the subject lived his or her life and the circumstances that shaped his or her actions and decisions. Most biographies are considered non-fiction but there are biographies which accounts the life story of a fictional character.

23. Tips in writing a biography:

24. Choose your potential subject. Make sure that the person you are going to choose interests you and will also interest your target audience. Develop your material. Planning is vital, no one needs to stress this out. Make a list of low points and high points, and other periods which are interesting, from the life of your subject.

25. 3. Create a research plan. Do interviews, take all primary resources, and support it with secondary sources. You have to tell the truth about the life of your subject therefore you have to know them .

26. 4. Use the third person POV. This will help your work become more objective. You are not the person in the biography, you are just telling the person’s story. 5. Read and rewrite. Like all other research and writing works, you have to read and rewrite. Reading your work will help you identify weak spots and errors and rewriting is like polishing your most precious gem.

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