Product Description: Everybody has something to say. In an age when Twitter, blogs, and Tumblrs give millions the chance to write whatever is on their minds, it seems that we're finding plenty of avenues in which to share it. How, then, do we write what is worth saying? How do we record our important memories so they'll be remembered? How do we tell our personal stories the way they deserve to be told?In keeping with successful earlier editions of Writing from Within, Selling has stressed the idea that personal writing is a means to personal understanding...read more

Uses autobiography as a means of developing writing skills, with tips and techniques for teaching the fundamentals of composition

Offers would-be writers advice on getting started, exploring their most vivid memories, describing people, writing dialogue, revising their work, and interviewing people for oral histories