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    Zero to Sixty in One Year: An Easy Month-by-Month Guide to Writing Your Life Story
    Zero to Sixty in One Year: An Easy Month-by-Month Guide to Writing Your Life Story
    Zero to Sixty in One Year: An Easy Month-by-Month Guide to Writing Your Life Story
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    Zero to Sixty in One Year: An Easy Month-by-Month Guide to Writing Your Life Story

    By Risa Nye

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    In this book, author Risa Nye doesn't tell you how to write your life story--she shows you how she did it, and takes you through the easy-to-manage strategy she cooked up for her year-long blog experiment, Zero to Sixty in One Year. By breaking it all down into manageable sections, with examples from each of her six decades of stories, she takes the anxiety out of starting off with a blank page or screen. With tips on getting started, a variety of ways to refresh your memory, and those peeks into her blog, Risa invites you to begin writing your life story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRisa Nye
    Release dateApr 5, 2014
    ISBN9781311568014
    Zero to Sixty in One Year: An Easy Month-by-Month Guide to Writing Your Life Story

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      Zero to Sixty in One Year - Risa Nye

      Introduction

      After years of yearning to call myself a writer, I decided to return to graduate school and devote two years to writing full-time. Little did I know that my fellow MFA students would be, on average, the age of my youngest child. At fifty-eight, I had decades on most of my classmates. When we submitted our first essays to each other to read, I was dismayed to see how many of my colleagues were writing about the recent loss of their beloved grandmothers who were not that much older than me. I had many more life experiences to write about beyond the boyfriends-and-break-ups stage many of them were going through. I hadn’t broken up with anyone since I was seventeen—and I was a grandmother myself. I didn’t think I knew it all, but I knew a LOT. I was in my fifties, writing about the 1950s, and I felt a little like a fish out of water.

      Unfortunately, the opportunities to present work for feedback from my peers would be limited to two or three submissions per semester. I had so many stories to tell, and once I got going, reaching back in time to write about the street I grew up on, our colorful neighbors, my childhood exploits—and the story behind my own bad breakup—I realized I needed another outlet for writing. The floodgates of memory had opened for me, and I felt a need to get these memories written. And best of all, the more I wrote, the more excited I got about writing.

      What happened next turned me into an accidental memoirist: I came up with an idea for recording the lifetime of memories and stories I’d been holding on to.

      I decided to start a blog.

      The short posts and casual nature of blogging seemed like a good way to capture some of these old memories. But I just wanted to commit to blogging for one year; I figured a year would be enough time to give it a decent shot. Slowly, over the course of twelve months, I produced a look back at the six decades of my life, complete with pictures of my bad perms in the ’80s.

      Do you need to create a blog in order to write about your life experiences? Absolutely not. However, if you want to record some of your favorite stories and memories

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