Talk: "Writing Your Own Story"
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Jul.15.2010 - 5:05 pm
Well, six months have passed, and I’m thirty pages into transcribing George’s memoir. It’s slow-going due to his almost indecipherable scrawl, but I’m beginning to pick up a...
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Jan.07.2010 - 5:14 pm
I first met George about eight years ago. It was the annual neighborhood block party, and he was marching around the cul-de-sac in his khaki shorts and worn-out Keds looking for...
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Nov.17.2009 - 1:24 pm
Okay, this takes the cake. . . (or the pizza in this case). What happens on pizza night when a writer’s head if full of all the things going on in her life:
1: researching and...
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Oct.22.2009 - 3:50 pm
Since publishing my memoir, I've been asked by a few writers involved in writing their own memoirs for some helpful tips. Strangely, I always feel presumptuous in giving out...
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Mar.01.2009
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
Kids who grow up in ultrareligious families often have great tales to tell, but the stories of Veronica Chater make you shake your head, laugh out loud and joyfully turn the page...
About Veronica
I grew up in San Jose, California, the second oldest of eleven kids, raised by radically Catholic parents who were on a mission to find the traditional church after it was modernized by Vatican II. This mission took us to Portugal and back, and from middle...
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Sierra Club; Public Library; Public Schools; Crowden Music Center; Women's Cancer Resource Center; Democratic Party
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