WRITING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL: JOYS & PITFALLS

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WRITING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL: JOYS & PITFALLS *Writing autobiographical FICTION can be joyous as well as dangerous. The joys are that it: 1. Lets you supplement Imagination (and research) with one of the most valuable resources you possess: MEMORY. “Memory and imagination are our only resources. Our stories are either remembered or imagined or—and this is most often the case—they are both remembered and imagined, they come out of a combining of the two resources.

• autobiographical fiction
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• identities of real people
• real people with human mixture
• real people
• story