One Hundred Years of Excellence in Writing”
(1909 – 2009)
The California Writers Club ~ Mount Diablo Branch
Features
Veronica Chater
“Writing Your Own Story”
January 9, 2010
All writers feel called to tell their own life story. Some do it in book-length memoirs; others in shorter nonfiction formats—personal essays, ongoing blog entries, journaling. Many short story writers and novelists admit to probing the meaning of their lives through their fiction. This month, memoirist Veronica Chater will share tips on how to write our personal stories. In her recently published Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family (W.W. Norton & Co.), she tells the story of her early life as one of eleven children. She calls it “the story that was in the shadowy background of every essay, short story, and radio piece I’ve ever done—the one that time would not let me forget.” Since we are all telling our own stories, in one form or another, we are fortunate to have an opportunity to learn from one of the best in this genre.
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