Remembering Childhood - Rupley, Leslie
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Learn how to write a memoir that conveys the powerful feelings that your memories hold. With the help of Leslie Rupley's expertly crafted vignettes to invoke them, you'll recapture your cherished remembrances of the people you have known and the poignant events of your early life. These memoir examples are useful as writing models. Each vignette is paired with writing instructions and blank workbook pages for you to write your own story. With 70 different prompts, you'll find it a pleasure to assemble ideas and impressions, to write with confidence, and construct a memoir you will be proud to…mehr

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Learn how to write a memoir that conveys the powerful feelings that your memories hold. With the help of Leslie Rupley's expertly crafted vignettes to invoke them, you'll recapture your cherished remembrances of the people you have known and the poignant events of your early life. These memoir examples are useful as writing models. Each vignette is paired with writing instructions and blank workbook pages for you to write your own story. With 70 different prompts, you'll find it a pleasure to assemble ideas and impressions, to write with confidence, and construct a memoir you will be proud to share. Bonus Jump-Start Your Memoir videos provide tips about how to overcome hurdles that prevent you from initiating, writing and completing an engaging memoir. Scan the embedded links or type in the web address to access them. (Leslie) guides you on a path of memory and reflection that spurs hand to pen, or computer, to places you thought were tucked away never to surface, but which suddenly have profound meaning and understanding. Take the journey with Leslie and enjoy the ride. - Sandra E Taradash "The excitement of reliving my story from the Depression to today, the struggles and the triumphs was so much fun. Now it's there for posterity. Leslie is a pro." - Eileen Bodnar "Thank you for the marvelous job you did [writing my mother's memoir]. It's absolutely beautiful and means so much to all of us to have this incredible treasure. She feels so honored…and she loves the book." Kerri Shawn
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Leslie Rupley authored "Beyond the Silk Mills," a historical family saga, "Remembering Childhood: Workbook Your Way to a Finished Memoir," and twelve ghost-written memoirs. She recalls that when her children were young they poked her when in public. "Mom, don't stare!" She stared because she was day-dreaming about passers-by. Where were they born? What's important to them? What makes them afraid or elated? This curiosity about people and their histories drives her to write both memoir and historical fiction. Memoir writing was not her first career. She earned scholarships and graduate fellowships to finance her way through three degrees, one from William Paterson University and two more from Michigan State University, and embarked on satisfying careers as a reading specialist, educational evaluator, and a school district administrator. Between these vocations in education when her own children were young, she created "A Parent's Place" to develop and market educational toys. While scouting in San Francisco for places to produce her waterproof painting smocks, she encountered near sweatshop conditions that heightened her empathy for the textile mill workers who play a significant role in her novel "Beyond the Silk Mills." The history of Paterson, New Jersey as the center of the silk industry stirred her curiosity because both her predeceased grandfathers had labored in the early twentieth-century silk mills. Her dad often took her to visit the Great Falls of the Passaic River to admire the magnificent waterpower that gave rise to Paterson's early industry. This youthful fascination with the river and the surrounding nineteenth-century brick mills inspired "Beyond the Silk Mills." Leslie began LTR Productions: Preserving Personal Histories in 2006 to write memoirs for her clients. When asked why she hadn't written her own memoir she answered, "I think it would be more fun to make the whole thing up." Voila! Historical Fiction. Subsequently she did write a memoir in the form of childhood vignettes that are incorporated into her book "Remembering Childhood: Workbook Your Way to a Finished Memoir." Leslie and her husband have three grown children and two grandchildren who live near them in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she settled in 1968. Aside from enjoying family and friends as well as writing and teaching, she volunteers, reads, knits, hikes, daydreams, watches TV westerns, cooks healthy food, eats too much chocolate, and laughs whenever possible.