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Finding Your Voice and Crafting Stories that Ignite the Soul with Sue William Silverman

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Sue William Silverman joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to talk about the power of creative nonfiction, how to use metaphor, masks, and language to harness its power, and how this work can lead to personal growth.

As you listen along, here are a few questions to ponder: Which of your stories yearn to be told? How do you uncover their many emotional truths? What do those truths look like on the page and sound like when you read them out loud?

Sue’s Bio:

Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author of eight works of nonfiction and poetry. Her most recent book is Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul. Her previous book, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences," won the gold star in Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year Award and the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature. Other works include Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, which was made into a Lifetime TV movie; Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, which won the AWP Award; and The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew. She is faculty co-chair of the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Episode Highlights:

4:00 Why We Write Creative Nonfiction

8:00 Metaphors in Creative Nonfiction Writing

24:00 Using Masks to Externalize the Narrator and Connect with Their Voice

30:00 Writing, Creativity, and Emotional Truth

36:00 Creative Nonfiction Writing and Personal Growth

42:00 Writing, Memoir, and Essay Collections.

48:00 Writing, Resilience, and Self-Expression

Resources Mentioned During This Episode
Innocence & Experience: Voice in Creative Nonfiction” by Sue William Silverman

INTERVIEW & REVIEW: Sue William Silverman, Author of Acetylene Torch Songs

Connect with Sue:

Website: www.SueWilliamSilverman.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SueWilliamSilverman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suewilliamsilverman/

Connect with your host, Lisa:

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1. Sue WIlliam Silverman (00:00:00)

2. Marker (00:21:04)

3. Marker (00:52:00)

41 episodes

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Sue William Silverman joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to talk about the power of creative nonfiction, how to use metaphor, masks, and language to harness its power, and how this work can lead to personal growth.

As you listen along, here are a few questions to ponder: Which of your stories yearn to be told? How do you uncover their many emotional truths? What do those truths look like on the page and sound like when you read them out loud?

Sue’s Bio:

Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author of eight works of nonfiction and poetry. Her most recent book is Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul. Her previous book, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences," won the gold star in Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year Award and the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature. Other works include Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, which was made into a Lifetime TV movie; Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, which won the AWP Award; and The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew. She is faculty co-chair of the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Episode Highlights:

4:00 Why We Write Creative Nonfiction

8:00 Metaphors in Creative Nonfiction Writing

24:00 Using Masks to Externalize the Narrator and Connect with Their Voice

30:00 Writing, Creativity, and Emotional Truth

36:00 Creative Nonfiction Writing and Personal Growth

42:00 Writing, Memoir, and Essay Collections.

48:00 Writing, Resilience, and Self-Expression

Resources Mentioned During This Episode
Innocence & Experience: Voice in Creative Nonfiction” by Sue William Silverman

INTERVIEW & REVIEW: Sue William Silverman, Author of Acetylene Torch Songs

Connect with Sue:

Website: www.SueWilliamSilverman.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SueWilliamSilverman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suewilliamsilverman/

Connect with your host, Lisa:

Get Your Free Copy of Write More, Fret Less: https://lisacooperellison.com/newsletter-subscribe/

Website: https://lisacooperellison.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisacooperellison/

YouTube: ht

Connect with your host, Lisa:
Get Your Free Copy of Write More, Fret Less
Website | Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | LinkedIn
Sign up for Camp Structure: https://lisacooperellison.com/camp-structure-find-your-memoirs-narrative-arc/
Sign up for Mastering Trauma Scenes to Improve Your Memoir: https://janefriedman.com/mastering-trauma-scenes-to-improve-your-memoir-with-lisa-cooper-ellison/

Produced by Espresso Podcast Production

  continue reading

Chapters

1. Sue WIlliam Silverman (00:00:00)

2. Marker (00:21:04)

3. Marker (00:52:00)

41 episodes

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