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How to Use Writing, Music, Drama & Art Therapy Techniques for Healing:
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Published Jan 2007.
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How to Use Writing, Music, Drama & Art Therapy Techniques for Healing
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Learn healing techniques from creative writing therapists using the tools of music, visual imagery, and expressive arts therapies in the background. It’s a multimedia approach to enhancing creativity, memory and to write salable work.
Are you interested in guiding life story writers in a variety of environments from life-long learning or reminiscence therapy to working with hospice chaplains? Be an entrepreneur, career coach, or manuscript “doctor” organizing groups using music and art in the background to inspire authors. Design brain-stimulating exercises for specific types of writing.
Tired of analyzing puzzles to build brain dendrites and stimulate, enhance and exercise your own memory or those of groups or clients? Help yourself or others write salable works and move beyond journaling as a healing tool. Write therapeutically about a significant event in anyone’s life against a background of art or music.
Fold paper to make pop-up books, gifts, or time capsules where you can illustrate and write. Even add MP3 audio files.
Table of Contents
Chapters
Introduction
1
Preserving Memories, Enhancing Creativity, and Healing by Writing Memoirs-
Text, Oral, Visual, Pop-Up Books, and Multimedia
2
Creative Writing Therapy Group Fiction Projects to Do
3
Creative Fiction Writing Therapy Projects for Playwriting & Scriptwriting
4 How to Create Paperback 98-Page Pamphlets on Current Issues in the News for
Students/Researchers, Teachers, and Librarians
5 Writing, Publishing, and Selling Your Own Small Booklets or Pamphlets
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How to Format Your Book or Booklet Manuscript
7 Self Promotion and Plugging Products
8 Pre-Selling Your Book with a Web Hub before Publication
9 Getting a Strong and Visible Platform
10 Writing Drama or Memoirs as Time Capsules for Internet Video Theater or Radio
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Organizing Your Life Story Book as Dramatic Fiction
12 Writing and Expressive Arts Coaches as Creativity Motivators
13 Write about Peoples’ Inner Payoffs and Moral Needs
14 Writing Biography and True Story
15 How Writing Salable Work is about Selling Solutions
16 Does Writing Your Life Story As A Novel Affect Your Memory?
17 Writing Life Stories or Current Issues as Romance Novels or Romantic Stories
18 Using Odd and Even Chapters in Your Book or Biography
19 Music Therapies as Healing and Inspirational Tools in Creative Writing
Coaching
20 How to Write a Course Syllabus and Teach Online to Market Your Books
21 Online Creativity-Enhancing Businesses for Writers as Entrepreneurs to Start
Media Tours
22 News Monitoring Service
23 Music Video Podcasts
24 Mind-Body-Spirit Businesses
25 Inspirational and Motivational Writing with Music for Relaxation Business
26 Creative Writing Preference Assessments as Healing Tools
27 Writing Coaches and Creative Writing Therapists are “Tech Support.” Take the
“Howling Wolf’s Scribe” Creative Writing Preference Classifier
28 How Slice-of-Life Vignettes, Essays, and Journaling Become Healing Tools
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Here’s how to open a variety of businesses as a creative writing coach, memory enhancement facilitator, or consultant. Incorporate selected techniques for healing inspired by music, drama, and art therapists. Or design creative writing assessments for clients. Consider life-long learning in expressive arts coaching. Become a creative writing facilitator, therapist or a manuscript ‘doctor’ and writing coach. Here are numerous business to start and operate all focused on applying or enhancing creativity and/or memory.
You can become certified as a creative writing therapist using the healing tools of music, visual imagery, and expressive arts therapies in the background. It’s a multimedia approach to enhancing creativity and memory. Other entrepreneurial possibilities include alternative healing consultant incorporating creative writing and journaling as healing tools for use in problem solving or conflict resolution. Organize family history and genealogy journalism research workshops.
You’d work under the supervision of a health care professional providing writing instruction to a group. Or as a coach, you’d work in a corporate setting as an outsourced independent business contractor training executives in how to improve their writing skills. Or offer coaching in writing to employees and executives in a corporate setting as a business communications trainer. Another possibility is to open a writing coach business and help authors prepare their manuscripts, plays, or scripts for the appropriate markets—publishers, agents, or producers.
In a religious or alternative healing group, creative writing coaching becomes a tool for journaling inwardly to discuss choices made. Coach individuals in how they can learn from past decisions. Learn how to make better decisions in writing and in life by not overlooking the “blind spots.” Creative writing as a coaching business in a consulting business also becomes looking beyond editorial revisions to see what type of visible national platform a writer-client can develop.
Because creative people differ, writing coaches or consultants are trained and hired to recognize “blind spots” that could lead to a creative worker’s derailment. Copyeditors are hired to revise, edit or otherwise correct the writing rather than heal the writer.
Creative writing therapists, like biblio/poetry therapists or expressive arts therapists (art, music, drama, and dance), are certificated persons with graduate degrees. Expressive arts therapists have to pass national exams. They are trained in a particular therapy in graduate school and serve in internships in one of the expressive arts therapists working under the supervision of health care professionals, such as a physician prescribing a specific plan of therapy.
Creative writing therapists help people from all walks of life solve problems and resolve conflicts by making use of journaling, reading, and writing as healing tools in therapy, usually with a group.
Creative writing coaches are not licensed and don’t need a specific degree or expertise in a special area of training. Most have years of experience in editing books or writing published works, or working as a “script doctor” on plays or film and video scripts. They are not trained as therapists. They are consultants similar to script doctors that help writers improve their books, scripts, or other works of writing.
Creative writing therapists and writing teachers may specialize in helping people write, record, or transcribe their life stories, memoirs, autobiographies, and personal or oral histories. Writing teachers who are not creative writing therapists with training and certification are sometimes called personal historians when they specialize in helping clients write or record life stories. Those recording life stories are called oral historians.
Are you interested in guiding life story writers in a variety of environments from life long learning to working with hospice chaplains? Or perhaps you’d like to be an entrepreneur organizing groups as a writing coach using music in the background to inspire authors?
Are you a musician or certificated music therapist who wants to write books, stories, or true life experiences in a variety of formats—books, short stories, skits, plays, scripts, poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, or interactive learning materials? Perhaps you’d like to design brain-stimulating exercises for others in specific occupations or life stages. You can combine writing with music and art or drama as multimedia to enhance creativity.
Tired of analyzing puzzles to build brain dendrites and stimulate your own memory or those of groups or clients? Write about an experience or event in your life or another’s significant event, highlight, or turning point with a goal of writing therapeutically with a background of ethnic or inspirational music.
Or should you work the right hemisphere of your brain and fold paper to make pop-up or origami books where you can illustrate, write, and even add an array of MP3 audio music or speech files on a disc or add a disc with video, photography, and illustrations slipped inside an envelope pasted on the inside back book cover.
Write while listening to music for inspiration, relaxation, or closure. Write therapeutically for health. Here’s how to write salable memoirs for popular magazines to enhance your memory. The first question to ask yourself or another is, “On your way to maturity, what have you given up?” What have you added? Is your life story about disconnection and keeping your mouth shut? Or is it about connections and sharing meaning through communication?
How secure, stable, and steady is your sense of self as the seas crash around you? To what portraits will your memoirs give voice as you cross over to each new stage of life? To what in your life story will you pay tribute? Describe your watershed in colorful words, sounds, or pictures. Highly recommended background reading before starting to write memoirs (for female adolescent memoirs writers, older adults, and journaling coaches or creative writing educators) are the books titled, Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development, by Lyn Mikel and Carol Gilligan, Ballantine Books, 1992, and In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, by Carol Gilligan, Harvard University Press, 1982.
Readers reach out to you. Let’s hear or read about your crossroads and paths taken. And to put your words to use, consider writing salable anecdotes and life experiences for popular magazines. Your social history is part of pop culture. Reminiscing is good for your memory and personal history.
Memoirs are excerpts and highlights of significant events in your life. They can be written in prose form or as skits, plays, dialoguing with relatives, or as monologues. Parts of your life story can even become material for stand-up comics in a laugh-for-your-health workout. Or you can write salable memoirs and put direct experience in a small package and launch it worldwide.
Write your life story in anecdotes of 375 to 1,500 words. The difference between memoirs and autobiographies is that memoirs are excerpts or highlights of a life story. Autobiographies are life stories than run chronologically from birth to maturity.
Write salable tributes, eulogies, and highlights of life stories and personal histories for autobiographies. Then condense or contract the life stories or personal histories into PowerPoint presentations and similar slide shows on discs using lots of photos and one-page of life story.
Collect experiences. Flesh-out news stories, linking them together into first-person diary-style novels and books, plays, skits, or other larger works. Write memoirs or celebration-of-life tributes for the living.
If ghostwriting is too invisible, write biographies and vocational biographies, success stories and case histories, and customize for niche interest groups. Your main goal with personal history and life stories is to take the direct experience itself and package each story as a vignette.
The vignette can be read in ten minutes. So fill magazine space with a direct experience vignette. Magazine space needs only 1,500 words. When you link many vignettes together, each forms a book chapter or can be adapted to a play or script.
By turning vignettes into smaller packages, they are easier to launch to the media. When collected and linked together, they form a chain of vignettes offering nourishment, direction, purpose, and information used by people who need to make choices. Here's how to write those inspiration-driven, persistence-driven life stories and what to do with them. Use universal experience with which we all can identify.
Included is an excerpt from a full-length diary-format first person memoirs novel and an entire three-act play. Also, there is a monologue for performances. There's a demand for direct life experiences written or produced as vignettes and presented in small packages.
Save those vignettes electronically. Later, they can be placed together as chapters in a book or adapted as a play or script, turned into magazine feature, specialty, or news columns, or offered separately as easy-to-read packages.
If you are working with activities directors and persons with dementias on stimulating memories, I highly recommend reading an online article and viewing the resource links at the
Website called, About Health & Fitness at:
http://alzheimers.about.com/cs/treatmentoptions/a/reminiscence.htm?once=true&. See the article titled, “Reminiscence Therapy and Activities for People with Dementia,” From Christine Kennard, “Your Guide to Alzheimer's Disease.”
Try writing to ethnic music. Whether you choose Asian, Middle Eastern, Flamenco, new age, classical, Latin beat, Salsa, world music or inspirational tunes, look for specific music recommended by music therapists. The type of music selected affects each individual differently. Music is customized to the individual’s choice. Certain types of music influence your brain waves in one way and another individual’s in another way.
If you want a joyous, uplifting sound to write to, try klezmer, Rom, Eastern European, Spanish flamenco, or Middle Eastern tribal dance music. If you want music to do your Tai Chi or Qi Gong exercises to, find slower Asian music or flute music from Balinese and Japanese to the music of India or Indonesian Gamelan music for slow exercise. Chinese and Indian music also are excellent for slow exercises for balance in walking such as Tai Chi, Qi Gong, or chair Yoga.
You choose the music according to the mood you want to create and than move to the rhythm or write or do both. Let the music carry you away in your visualization and imagination to bring out the creativity in your writing. Make your writing animated—alive and move your words to the music.
Take stirring klezmer wedding music, for example. If you want to write a scene in a novel, in your autobiography, or memoirs, pick klezmer or Middle Eastern dance music or tribal dance, and see what scene comes out in your creativity. Writing historically? Pick stringed instruments, flutes, or 16th and 17th century Baroque music to stir you to write creatively. Think of ways that music and writing together can heal you with the music as one tool and your writing and imagination or historical research as another tool. Let’s look at klezmer.
“Klezmer music like any genre of folk music is music of, from and by the folk. The melismatic sounds of klezmer, the Arabic scales that form the DNA of klezmer all contribute to its universal sonority. Klezmer is just another way for me to express to the listener my perception of the human condition.” Yale Strom.
I highly recommend The Absolutely Complete Klezmer Songbook, by Yale Strom. The book provides a collection of Klezmer music as a book that includes a CD. Before the 1970s, klezmer music was little known to the non-Jewish world outside of the nostalgia of ethnomusicology or from interviews of ethnologists, folk music devotees, and with older adults who remembered Yiddish theater or radio in the thirties.
Now this prolific book of music provides 313 full-length klezmer songs, including out-of-print and previously unpublished melodies, many with Yiddish lyrics. All with musical notes. The material comes from both Yiddish and Rom (Gypsy) Holocaust survivors that recalled the songs from childhood. The book offers an excellent compilation of bulgars, horas, nigunim, and other klezmer songs and music. There's also a glossary, perspective, and history of klezmer and Rom music.
The book of music notes and songs include archival photos, historic background, cultural material, and the CD containing 36 klezmer songs recorded by Yal Strom's Klezmer band, Hot Pstromi. The book is available at many music sellers or from the music publisher, Transcontinental Music Publications.
Klezmer music is for dancing, celebrations, weddings, and entertainment. Strom also is a musical archivist. He has made many trips to Eastern Europe to interview klezmer and Rom musicians. Strom has advanced knowledge of what the music was like when klezmer and Rom musicians played at celebrations in rural Eastern Europe of the past century.
Check out his films at: http://www.yalestrom.com/films.html#
For variety you might also keep CDs of Greek dance music to write with, medieval and Renaissance music, classical, new age, world music, Latin Salsa, or whatever mood you want to create for writing. Put the music on and begin to imagine what you’d write on a blank page. Make a list of what words, pictures, and sounds would go on your computer screen. That’s the start of multimedia writing as one healing tool.
Personal and Oral History Therapy
Creative writing therapists also might consider researching the effects of personal and oral history listening, recording, and transcribing as therapy. To begin your research from a viewpoint of how to help writers learn to listen more effectively, you might find helpful an article titled, “Learning to Listen: Interview Techniques and Analyses," by Kathryn Anderson and Dana Jack. The article appears on pages 157-171 in the anthology titled, The Oral History Reader, edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson. The article discusses women and counseling.
It originally was published in Sherna Gluck and Daphne Patai's book titled, Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History (1991: 11-26). Oral history therapy group facilitators would find this article helpful when discussing healing or therapeutic effects of oral history.
Oral or personal history also is helpful when teaching writers to listen with efficacy for the therapeutic, beneficial, and healing elements of life stories combined with social history before writing a first draft in a creative writing therapy workshop.
Oral and personal history listening techniques may be taught and practiced for use as a tool before classes begin creative writing therapy or memoirs writing workshops for memory enhancement. Listening to oral history is helpful before the actual writing process starts.
Working with writers, artists, or musicians not interested in speaking publicly, an online group combining photos or illustrations and text materials can be turned into multimedia, using musical backgrounds with themes or melodies related to the setting of the stories. The materials would be saved to a digital disc. Work could be uploaded to a Web site in e-zine, blog, or newsletter format.
Other alternatives include pop-up books, (paper engineering) pop-up books on disc or on Web sites, anthologies, chap books in gift or prayer boxes, and family or social history time capsules. Creative projects as healing tools could include the cooperation of musicians, artists, and writers setting stories to music and illustrating significant scenes or themes.
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Chapter 1
Preserving Memories, Enhancing Creativity, and Healing by Writing Memoirs-Text, Oral, Visual, Pop-Up Books, and Multimedia
“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.” Carol Burnett (1936 - )
The purpose of using multimedia and mood-lifting, inspirational, or meditative background music “to write by” in creative writing therapy as a healing tool is to produce a hand-made, finely bound memoirs or success-story gift book containing a DVD or CD placed in the inside cover of the book in a plastic envelope attached to the cover that enhances the text transcription or rendition of the paperback book. The goal of creative writing therapy for memory enhancement is to show how two or more people bring out the best in one another. It’s a time capsule of an individual’s life—turning points, significant events, and highlights.
What questions will you ask? How would you interview people for the significant moments in their life stories, and then write, publish, and bind by hand exquisitely crafted personal gift books, memoirs, or business success stories? The questions and interviewing techniques in the next chapter will give you a healing tool that you can use for yourself or with others in your work using creative writing therapy to freshen memories by writing multi-media memoirs that emphasize those turning points and events.
What's your opinion of creative writing therapy? Some colleges award masters degrees in creative writing therapy, especially bibliotherapy. It combines writing poetry (poetry therapy) fiction, memoirs, journaling, and dramatic writing as part of an expressive therapies masters program for those with a background in creative writing, art, or drama.
What's A Creative Writing Therapist?
Creative writing therapy differs from bibliotherapy or poetry therapy. Creative writing therapy emphasizes listening to oral or personal history—either one’s own or someone else’s personal history and then writing from inspiration using facts, significant events, and turning points as highlights of an experience, issue, or life story.
Bibliotherapy may focus more on either reading books, articles, or poems and discussing the facts, experiences, or emotions in the written word read. Bibliotherapy may emphasize reading and discussion, whereas creative writing therapy emphasizes expressive writing from behavior, emotions, or logic. Bibliotherapists in the USA have a Federal Title classification for this job description.
In 1977, a Federal Title, classification 601, was created for bibliotherapists to be hired. Poetry therapists undertook 440 hours of the study of poetry therapy became eligible for the newly created position, according to the National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT). Check out the NAPT’s Web site located presently at
http://poetrytherapy.org/contact.htmlor write to:
Sheila Dietz, NAPT Administrator
525 SW 5th Street, Suite A
Des Moines, Iowa 50309-4501
Email: info@poetrytherapy.org
http://poetrytherapy.org/contact.html
The Association publishes a quarterly for Poetry Therapy called the
A.P.T. News. It's estimated that thousands of professionals use poetry
therapy. The requirements for a "trainee in poetry therapy" include
graduation from an accredited college with a degree in the humanities or
behavioral sciences.
Equivalent credit may be granted for combination of completed
college courses and experience in a recognized institution. There should be
evidence of concentration in poetry covering the primitive, classical,
post-renaissance, modern, and avant-garde writing. The trainee must be
accepted into a mental health program as a volunteer or paid employee under
professional supervision.
As a poetry therapist, you must not exaggerate your own importance in the therapeutic team. Certification allows you to put a C.P.T. (Certified Poetry Therapist) designation after your name. Training programs in poetry therapy and bibliotherapy are offered through the National Association for Poetry Therapy and through other private schools.
There are several poetry therapy institutes. The New School for Social Research in New York City offered training programs in poetry therapy and bibliotherapy. One poetry therapist, Don Theye, has a motto: "Observe, absorb, create, share." Check out the book titled: A Seminar on Bibliotherapy: Proceedings by Dr. Franklin M. Berry, a psychology professor. Research bibliotherapy-related books at the Library School, University of Wisconsin, Helen White Hall, 600 N. Park, Madison, WI, 53706. See the ERIC (Educational Research Web Portal) ERIC # ED174226, Seminar on Bibliotherapy. Proceedings of Sessions, June 21-23, 1978 in Madison, Wisconsin. The ERIC Web site is at: <http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED174226&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b8011ce45>.
For guidelines to poetry therapy and book lists, write: J.B. Lippincott, Co., East Washington Sq.,
Philadelphia, PA 19105. Of interest are the pioneer books written in the sixties and seventies, such as Poetry Therapy, by Dr. Jack J. Leedy (1969), and Poetry, the Healer, Dr. Jack J. Leedy (1973). For the current newsletter, click on the association's Web site at: http://poetrytherapy.org/contact.html.
Publishing Your Creative Writing Therapy Book
Some people pay handsomely for one hand-bound, gilded, and elegant gift book of lifetime or corporate events. You’d be surprised how many people are satisfied to offer up to $10,000 (or more, depending upon the publisher) to have only one copy of a hand-bound hardcover book published about their event or life story. What does it take to create and publish a memoirs gift book commemorating a celebration of life, Bar Mitzvah, confirmation, wedding, or true experience? What quality of personal book do you want to make from scratch—writing, printing, and binding? As far as printing and binding, you can make one finished book at a cost to you of only $1.50-$4.50. What you charge a client depends on what it costs you.
If you create and publish a custom gift book, you’d publish only one copy of a hand bound, hardcover book. The tome would contain anywhere from 60 to 100 photos. Text material would be based on phone or live interviews. The interviews usually would run at least two hours or more for one person (and about two hours spent per each interview). The gift book would be about 80 to 120 published pages or slightly more if necessary. Look at yourself as a designer, writer, interviewer, and bookbinder.
You can even tailor a pop-up book creation (with the help of input from engineers on how to fold paper). Or learn how to make your own pop-up books. See the Joan Irvine Web site on making pop-up books at:
http://www.makersgallery.com/joanirvine/books.html. Also check out the How We Make Pop-Up Books Web site at: http://www.hawcockbooks.co.uk/how.php.
What questions do you ask to help people respond calmly and openly at an interview? Start with “What do you enjoy the most about this particular time of life? What do you enjoy most about this event? What do you enjoy most about this holiday? What do you enjoy most about this experience? What thought, act, or feeling do you want to emphasize in the gift book?
Serious Life Experiences
If the person is going to emphasize a war-related or military service event, an ordeal, medical or survival details, or a factual report of behaviors related to any other serious segment of a life story, you could ask in addition to the details, what have you learned from this experience?
How have you transcended the past and moved on? What have you learned from other people’s mistakes or choices? What have you learned from your past choices, mistakes, decisions, or alternative solutions and paths? For business case histories, ask your client to relate the details step-by-step so readers can follow how your client arrived at solutions to problems or achieved measurable results. A memoirs book is like a public relations campaign. It’s about image built on solid detail and storytelling illustrated by visually-striking photography (photojournalism).
Answer the individual’s silence or long pauses (to gather thoughts) by using action verbs such as, “Bring me up to date on your life story, a special event, or your work. Tell me about your plans for this book. Also let your client describe experiences in detail and color. Ask interview questions such as the following: “What’s your favorite experience and why? Describe a special gift you have given. What have you received that transformed your life? What lessons have you learned from past mistakes? What holiday or event do you enjoy the most?”
For further information on using action verbs, see my book titled,
801 Action Verbs for Communicators: Position Yourself First with Action Verbs for Journalists, Speakers, Educators, Students, Resume-Writers, Editors & Travelers. ISBN: 0-595-31911-4. Also check out my Web site links at http://www.newswriting.net.The interview questions should be given well ahead of the time of the actual live or telephone interview. Meet with the person by phone and/or in person before you arrange any interviews so you can learn your client’s expectations.
If your client wants to exceed the maximum number of words allowed, that client would be charged usually a dollar for each extra word included in the book above the maximum words allowed. (It varies with different publishers, of course.)
Each reprint of the book you’re your client would pay your team $10,000 for also would cost the client $250 or more per additional copy. The gift book would be wonderfully hand crafted in full color—a lifetime experience. The book could feature only one person being interviewed, for anywhere from two to 70 hours. Or an entire family may be interviewed in any city.
There could be only a half-hour interview of each person when 100 or more people have to be interviewed. Or such a valuable, well-crafted book may be customized to fit an individual’s special requirements. Yes, people do very happily pay this much for having a gift book crafted on them or their theme, and businesses doing this are doing wonderfully well finding clients.
The books are spectacular—rightfully gorgeous, hand bound in full color. For $10,000 (or more) anyone with the money and the time can have a book written based on interviews from anywhere, published and beautifully hand-bound with a hard cover. Are you ready to become a publisher of customized gift books?
You can publish all by yourself at a price only you will determine as you research the markets for gift books. You have a lot of choices varying from print-on-demand software to handcrafted bindings.
You can hire a team of interviewers, writers, and publishers or put to learning volunteer help from school projects and senior centers. The outcome is all the same: recording, organizing, and publishing peoples’ true life stories or other events. And you can pay for books that can be bound a whole variety of ways.
Act alone or work with a team of hired skilled people, volunteers active in retirement, or students learning the publishing business. However you manage your craft, every life story is worth a book. You can open a business or enjoy a hobby publishing gift books.
How Age-Wise Writers & Graphic Designers Can Create Pop-Up Memoirs Gift Books as Time Capsules or Multimedia Writing, Art & Music Therapy
Graphic designers and illustrators that also like to write can design pop-up family newsletters, gift books, or time capsules as keepsakes. You can start a business creating pop-up books for any age group and digitize the book to a Web site, CD, DVD, or create it hands-on in three dimensions as a paper hardcopy, or an electronic gift booklet.
If you need a workout session for your brain, try making pop up books as gifts. It’s like paper folding. You can teach senior citizens how to make life story memoirs gift books and/or record with camcorder and save on a DVD life story skits, plays, and pop-up books.
Here’s how to make hands-on paper pop up books. It’s like origami, and great for helping your memory and mind stay younger. When the book is done, you can use software such as PhotoShop to scan your project to a Web site or disc.
That way the pop-up book can be sent around the world electronically or sold through the mail or in gift shops as a hands-on paper book full of surprises, humor, or as a family history newsletter. To animate your book, use your favorite animation software for Web sites.
For the paper copy, it’s a right-hemisphere exercise in origami recommended as a balancing exercise for writers who like to illustrate for graphic design projects that showcase writing. Pop-up books can be made for grown-ups, using color copies of almost any item produced on heavy paper of photographs or other art.
Pop-ups for children also can include greeting cards to promote other children’s books or pop-ups in your story book can be rotating disks or leaves set in the center of the book. Three-dimensional folded paper glued into a book present the element of surprise. Make pop-up keepsake albums or gift memoirs books.
Ideas for pop-ups include baby and wedding photos or miniature awards and diplomas.
Learn what questions to ask and how to interview people for the significant moments in their life stories, and then write, publish, and bind by hand exquisitely-crafted personal gift books.When you craft a book entirely by hand and bind it in fine materials also by hand, being careful to use acid-free paper, you might also wish to illustrate the book yourself. Let’s propose you’re writing a children’s pop-up book about a child who is a relative. You’re going to bind the book yourself, taking lessons from the many courses in hand book-binding already on the Internet. Here’s how to illustrate the book.
If you write a children's book about your child or grandchild, try illustrating your children's book yourself on silk, coarse linen, or percale. You can even use a linen handkerchief or scarf. Frequently your artwork is wrapped around a drum, that is always curved, and illustration board won't wrap around a drum without bending and cracking.
If you decide to publish a non-fiction children's book, which will have less chance of losing in competition for entertainment against the best-selling fiction books, focus on a how-to book giving children of middle grades or their parents in picture books, information to read to children or instruction for children in how to build or do something they can't find quickly online or in a library, such as how to build or make something that children cherish.
Illustrating on Fabric for Books
To illustrate on fabric, mount the fabric on illustration board when you put your final drawing on fabric. Silk is preferred for a final draft. The artwork gets scanned into a computer, but has to roll around on a curved surface, a drum in order to be scanned to make a children's book. That's how most publishers work. If you’re having the book privately printed, find out the size of the drum so you can adjust or reduce the fabric before it gets scanned and the size adjusted once more.
The top layer of the art that is to be scanned sometimes is “set up” to be peeled off. Take a sheet of illustration board and mount silk on it, or coarse linen. Sometimes illustration board is too stiff when you cover it with fabric, and it won't peel right. So use this method. Get a sheet of Mylar or matte plastic.
This is a type of film. Mount very fine white silk with water mixed with acrylic matte medium. Scan it digitally to upload to the Web. For the three-dimensional pop-up book copy or mock-up that is not digitized, the best instruction I recommend is this method that I learned from the writings of the late Barbara Cooney, author and illustrator of more than 100 children's books and winner of the Caldecott medals and the American Book Award.
Cooney loved to mount the fine white silk with water and acrylic matte medium and then let it dry. The next step is to take a roller and put on a layer of diluted acrylic gesso. Then let that dry.
Sand the surface using very fine garnet paper. Cooney liked to repeat the second and third step until two to four layers of gesso were built up. What you want to get is a flexible fabric full of your illustration. Cooney described the result as an "egg-shell texture." She used titanium white in her acrylic paintings. Your color will be titanium white also.
Not many children's book writers know this technique of painted on mounted silk when they illustrate children's books, and publishers will be impressed with the professional technique, but in case no publisher can be found, you have an illustration for your children's book that will wrap around that drum, curving without cracking. Keep on writing and illustrating.
If color is too expensive for your budget, stick to black and white, and let the children color your book as they read or are read to from the text. Keep the text about one paragraph per page for a preschool book that will be read to children, and increase text for older children or illustrated gift books. When you make only one or two copies of a book that is entirely hand-made, you can do everything yourself or bring your materials to a printer.
To make more copies, scan into your personal computer each step of your book. Scan photos and art work at least at 300 dpi and large enough, at least 6 by 9 inches. Save text documents, for example as a Microsoft Word document. (Or use the equivalent in any other software word processing application.) Text size usually is letter size, which is 8 ½ by 11 inches. That way you can save your book to a CD or DVD with one file for photos and another for text.
Additionally, you can save a copy of your entire book in another file, organized with the text and photos interspersed the way you want to lay out the entire manuscript. The CD or DVD can be brought to most printers for additional copies of the book. Bind the book in exquisite materials by hand using paper and covers that resist acid and oxidation when the book is handed to the next generation. Personal gift books also can be pop-up books for children or grown-ups using themes of significant events and experiences that are meant to me remembered and discussed.
Concrete Pop-Up Books
There are two kinds of pop-up books, concrete paper and glue that you can fold with your hands and abstract pop-up shapes saved in a computer file or on a disc. Let’s begin with making a simple concrete pop-up that is glued into a book. When the book is opened to a particular page, the folded paper opens suddenly as if it is on springs. A pop-up inserted in a memoirs gift book can be made from a paper-cut illustration or drawing.
Supplies Needed for Simple Paper Pop-Ups
You’ll need a template for scoring and cutting. You can make a template by scoring art work. Or have a printer make the template for you. If your printer isn’t able to make a template, ask your local university to recommend an engineering or art student who has studied three dimensional art, origami, or making pop-ups.
A template may be made from a photograph that is reduced to the size you want and copied on a color copier. The following are the items to be assembled before beginning.
Template
Water colors or colorful inks
White glue that dries transparent
Paper clips
Straight edge or ruler
After you’ve made your illustration or had a photo color-copied to heavy paper, use the round edge of a paper clip to score little broken dots or lines so that the paper will fold along those lines you have scored. Don’t cut the scored lines. Only cut the solid lines.
Templates are labeled with letters of the alphabet such as A, B, C, and D. Usually templates follow a pattern such as beginning with A, which is scored and folded back. Then you fold along the dotted scored lines but not the solid lines. You’d follow through folding scored sides C and D forward. Then you’d glue the back side of the first panel to the back side of the second panel.
The panels would be numbered in linear order such as panel 1 and panel 2. You’d follow step-by-step in the order of the numbers or letters. Then you’d repeat for panels 3 and 4. So you’d begin logically with number 1 and end with number 4. You’d start with scored side A and end with scored side D. The folds would add up to a four-sided square. If you had a picture that folded into a pop-up with more or less sides, such as a triangle or an odd shape, you’d follow the numbers on your template.
Before you start to make a pop-up, the first step would be to create a template that you could score. The folds would be made on the scored lines and not on the solid lines. Your last step would be to glue your shape to the V fold so that your pop-up takes the shape you want before you glue it into your memoirs book as a centerfold pop-up or in some other spot. Before you begin, look at some instructional books on making pop-ups. They’re on the Web.
A pop-up photo of a couple dressed as bride and groom works well. The photo would be brought to a color copier and printed out on the type of paper that makes the best pop-ups. A history and virtual tour of pop-up books is at the University of North Texas Web site:
http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup2/introduction.htm. Some pop-up books in the past contained revolving discs called ‘volvelles.’ You don’t have to use photos. You can use art or memorabilia to pop up, if the type of paper is suitable.
Use “turn up” or “lift the flap” mechanisms as pop-ups in your gift book. The same pop-up copied can also be put in greeting cards to promote your book. Separate leaves of paper cut to different sizes. Each leaf would contain different information. The leaves can be hinged together and attached to a page. This works great with memorabilia.
The reader would be able to unfold multiple depths of a picture, such as a photo cut-out wearing different costumes or clothing styles. Examples would be the bridal gown, dressed for travel, at the beach, or in ethnic traditional clothing.
Until the early 19th century, movable books were created for adults, and not for children. One example would be learning anatomy at school from different leaves showing bones or muscles. For further information, see the following books:
Haining, Peter. Movable Books: An Illustrated History. London: New English Library, 1979.
Koskelin, Susan. "The Evolution of Movable Books from the Late Thirteenth Century to the Late Twentieth." Graduate school paper, U of North Texas, 1996.
Lindberg, Sten G. "Mobiles in Books: Volvelles, Inserts, Pyramids, Divinations, and Children's Games." Trans. Willian S. Mitchell. The Private Library 3rd series 2.2 (1979) : 49-82.
Montanaro, Ann R. Pop-up and Movable Books: A Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
What’s the Best Way to Learn How to Make Pop-Up Books and Greeting Cards?
Buy several pop-up books and make a list of how these books are placed together. Then take them apart. An excellent book for beginners is titled, The Elements of Pop-Up: A Pop-Up Book for Aspiring Paper Engineers, by David A. Carter and James Diaz (Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Div. NY 1999).
Use your camcorder to record yourself taking the book apart. It will be easier to put them back together when you have a visual recording of what the book looked like before and during each step of the way as the book is taken apart. Making simple pop-ups for books and greeting cards is easy to learn and helps develop the use of the right hemisphere of your brain through practice.
Make a template or buy templates to make pop-up books from craft, hobby, and book-binding supplies do-it-yourself stores. Several good book binding supplies stores are online. Search your Internet engine, for example Google at
with the key words “book binding supplies.”A professor of bookbinding at the Escola d'Arts i Oficis in Barcelona wrote an excellent how-to book titled, The Complete Book of Bookbinding by Josep Cambras. The book provides precise, systematic techniques with plenty of excellent illustrations. Other books include the following:
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Hand Bookbinding: A Manual of Instruction by Aldren A. Watson
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The Craft of Bookbinding by Manly Banister
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More Making Books by Hand: Exploring Miniature Books, Alternative Structures, and Found Objects by Peter Thomas
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The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History and Techniques (British Library Guides) by P. J. M. Marks
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Book Arts: Beautiful Bindings for Handmade Books by Mary Kaye Seckler
What’s complicated about crafting pop-up books is making gift books with moving parts. To learn how to do that, you need to talk to a paper engineer or paper folding specialist. Or take a course in making pop-up books with moving parts.
One excellent specialist in this field is paper engineer, Robert Sabuda. See his Web site at:
. Click on How to Make Pop-Ups at: http://www.robertsabuda.com/popupbib.html.Pop-Up Tutorials Online and Books on Making Pop-Ups
Web-based step-by-step instruction, workshop information, and a bibliography on making pop-up books are at the pop-up books author, Joan Irving’s site at: http://www.dreamscape.com/pdverhey/. Also other excellent bibliographies on making pop-up books include the following: Johnson, Paul. Pop-up Paper Engineering. Cross-curricular Activities in Design Technology, English and Art. The Falmer Press, 1992.
Beginners may enjoy the following books: Aotsu, Yoku. How to Make Pop-up Pictures! Dai-Nippon, 1993; Campbell, Jeanette R. Pop-up Animals and More! Evan-Moor, 1989; Valenta, Barbara. Pop-O-Mania. Dial Books. 1997.
Abstract Pop-Up Books
Play with Digital Pop-Up Cubes before You Fold Paper Pop-Ups
For digital pop-ups, try a pop-up cube that will appear on your computer as you create stories that give the reader a choice to move in several directions. This interactive choice is called writing in branching narratives.
Picture a cube or a pop-up book that snaps into three dimensions by extending the lines along the corner. Three-dimensional writing is in circular time with branching narratives ending in leaf nodes like the curving tree of life. Think of your story as a stack of cards—a metaphor used by many authoring tools.
1. Take a deck of blank cards and divide it into thirds—one for each part of your story. On each card, write a different beginning, middle, or ending for each part of the story.
2. Shuffle the each pile of cards so the reader can choose multiple pathways to interact within the story. Instead of linear time, you now have a three-dimensional parallel structure that goes back and forth like a time-travel novel.
3. Let the reader choose a different path, or return to the beginning to start a different story.
The most important rule to remember when designing an interactive story is that there are no rules. Start with a diagram and define the widest categories. Then, refine the story diagram, getting more specific as you go deeper into each story level.
Interactive writing uses metaphorical thinking to stimulate creative response. The interactive writer becomes a master of flexibility and a weaver of ideas, pictures, and sounds.
Practice Making Pop-Ups on Your Computer
Have a charming photo of a person in the book actually pop out in the middle of the book or at a spot where that person’s most important experience is mentioned. Before you design and cut out any folding pop-up art on paper, first make a verbal rather than a visual mock pop-up in your computer. A verbal pop-up is abstract. It’s all about writing one page in three dimensions. You have to think in three dimensions.
Your topic is “Writers wear many hats.” Write in of branching narratives. People who do this for a living are called non-linear editors.
A single script may incorporate several frameworks, including streaming audio narration, animation with voice-over, and montage. Other often-used frameworks—including comedy and drama—can be applied to new media presentations, as well.
The frameworks may vary from one category of facts or segment of the story to the next. In a documentary-style biography, you might include simple animation, backlit negatives, artwork, photos, or a narration to bridge the transitions.
The completed project should flow like one piece of cloth with no seams or hanging threads—like liquid, visual music. Using a varied selection of frameworks will help keep the attention of the audience and give the writer more options to set up a mighty conclusion. Be sure the frameworks don't overpower the information with too vivid an impact.
You want the readers to remember the life story highlights derived from listener.
Interactive gift books on computer discs (CDs or DVDs) can be true life stories (or fiction). They use a parallel story structure.
Readers can make several choices to change the events leading to different outcomes at different times. You can adapt an event to an interactive experience. This lets the audience enter feedback or gives a choice of how the story moves or ends.
Writing in Caricature
Writing in caricature is the essence of great dialogue writing. No one did it better than William Shakespeare, who was a master of written dialogue in caricature.
As your audience experiences the script during its performance, your writing will leap from two-dimensional text to the three-dimensional world of your audience's imagination. As you write this way, fit your dialogue into imaginary dialogue bubbles above the heads of your characters.
Your reading and viewing audiences begin to vibrate with charisma. The goal is to give each character the ability to influence, charm, inspire, motivate, and help the audience feel important.
Using Humor
The more important you make the audience feel, the better chance humor has of conveying a message of value. You may use carefully chosen humor with serious topics to hold the attention of the audience and to prevent the material from become too dry, abstract, or technical. Humor works well when it reveals pitfalls to be avoided. Your ability to make an audience laugh will increase the marketability of your work.
Using Drama
Drama is one of the best frameworks to use. To incorporate drama into a non-fiction memoirs gift book, include an experience with subplots framed like those in one of the fiction genres such as romantic comedy, adventure, mystery, or suspense.
Ask how the inner mechanisms work. Are facts readily available?
Or does the book allow the leading character or narrator to share only one experience as an interlude of inserted drama? Show contrasts in a memoirs book between the frameworks of dramatization, re-enactments, and demonstration. Contrasts are what makes a personal gift book of memoirs ‘alive’ rather than ‘flat’ in tone, texture, and mood.
“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.” __ Bruce Barton
Gift Books for Everyone
Gift books present memoirs, family history, events, business success stories, and commemorations. Gift books showcase celebrations and rites of passage rituals with ‘action’ photos or other graphics along with text in a coffee-table style book, pamphlet, and/or multimedia disc, usually inserted in an envelope pasted on the inside cover.
Besides being more than a glorified scrap book or keepsake album, the memoirs gift book is portable and can be published in a size that easily can be mailed anywhere.
The memoirs gift books also can be digitized and placed on discs such as DVDs or CDs, uploaded to Web sites as compressed MP4 files (video podcasts), narrated for a public access or family-only video if you interview the individual, or presented in a variety of formats from paperback or hard cover books and pamphlets to multimedia slide shows and short documentaries.
Author, Gore Vidal explained the differences between a memoirs and an autobiography in his memoir titled, Palimpsest. Vidal wrote, "A memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked."
When you write another person’s memoir, you’ll have to do the type of research that can be fact-checked. Verifiable facts in a memoir are based on the words—either oral or written—from the person you are interviewing to gather life experiences.
It is that individual’s words that are recorded, edited, and written. You may never find a way to prove the facts. An autobiography includes a lot of material that does not depend solely upon memory.
For example, a person you interview might use poetic or colorful words, moods, rhythms, and textures to create an ‘ambiance’ such as this fictional line recalling the economic depression of 1931: “The sunlight shattered tongues of ice on the pond as the bread line wound around the men selling apples in woven baskets.”
Explore this possible line, “Before I left, a merchant said he’d heard rumors that the village shaman sacrificed a llama to the rain deity and burned its heart as an offering because I visited his village to measure rainfall in the parched the Chilean desert that year.”
How would you like to show how the basic, fundamental, and universal truths of human experience pull together in patterns, celebrations, commemorations, business success stories, memoirs, family histories, and rites of passage? If you want to start and operate a home-based business online, on phone, or face-to-face writing and publishing memoirs and gift books, here is your step-by-step guide to follow. Get results and solve problems.
Help people celebrate significant experiences. Interview, transcribe, organize, edit, write, and publish a personal memoirs or business history book, booklet, or pamphlet. Or include with the book a sleeve containing a CD or DVD disk on the inside back page. That disk would contain the same material as the text portion of the book, but as a narrated audio or video ‘book.’
When children grow, up they’d love to see great grandma on video, hear her voice narrate her own life story’s highlights, and discuss the times and scenes from her past. The paperback or hard cover book would contain the same material that easily can be read without technology.
Here’s how to start. Your first step is to offer potential clients unique, individual, customized books or booklets. The type of books you would write and publish would be memoirs and gift books. To operate your business, you’d need to hire as independent contractors interviewers to interview clients in a variety of cities nationally or around the world.
In addition to writing the book, you’d also arrange any photos or other graphics, publish the books, and send finished, bound copies of the book or booklet to your clients. Your client would pay for a fixed number of copies of this book, enough to be both affordable for the client and profitable for you. On the average, you’d write and publish about 25 books per year, with the help of freelance writers or a team of writers working as independent contracts on assignment.
The type of book you’d write mainly would emphasize personal stories. They would be personal books that come out of journals and celebrations, life stories, business histories, tributes, and appreciation material. To begin, divide your categories into these main topics:
Personal Celebration Books
Quincinera (Hispanic 15th birthday party)
Start of teenage years
End of teenage years
Reaching 21
Military Service
stories/memoirschild’s memories
Pregnancy Diary
Travel tips and memorabilia/Travel Guides s
Ethnic Rites of Passage
Confirmations
Ordinations
War experiences
Immigration stories—the journey and life in the new country
Bilingual life stories in family’s original language with English translation section of same information
Moving stories—relocation, new house.
Surviving an illness and healing journal
Diet success story “How I lost weight and kept it off.”
Memoirs and photos at various stages of life—how a person changed every seven years
High school journal
Religious experiences
Inspirational journey
Motivational testimony
Diaries
Wills/Testaments
Eulogies
Childbirth experience/Bringing home baby
Adoption stories/open adoptions
Leisure life
Retirement
Selling the large house and moving to smaller quarters
Transition to assisted living
Volunteer experiences: documenting acts of kindness
Relationship Books
Adoptive child meets birth parents after decades
Dating history gift books
Engagements/Betrothals
Wedding
stories
Wedding
gifts and favors
Couple’s
life stories together
Family
histories
Genealogies
DNA reports linking families
Friendships
Reunions
Divorce journal of details
Battered spouse detail and dates of incidents journal
Events book
Religious conversion explanations to children
Partnership unions
Dog weddings
New pets introduced to older pets in the household
Merging of families—man with three children marries woman with three children
Extended family histories
Friends for 50+ years
Several couples buying one vacation home together
Gift Books
Children’s letters
Lessons Learned from Life (celebrity interviews)
How to Make the Most of What You Have
Exercise or dance lessons
Scholarship(s) or Fellowships won
Haiku poems
Report cards from past generations
Original designs or writings preserved for future generations/keepsake albums
Jokes (original, not copyrighted by anyone else other than your client)
Personalized children’s books—a story book bearing the name and photos of each child. This can be a universal novelette, novel, or story featuring the child.
Travel stories and events with details
School year books with a twist—customization and details
Valentine’s Day for each year for many years or one specific event—first Valentine’s day before the wedding.
Bridal showers
Baby showers
Baby naming book or baby naming event
Building a house
Book of thank you notes for an event, gift, or celebration
Pet showers (new dog or cat shower)
Bar and Bat Mitzvah
Confirmation
Baptism
Conversion
Christmas gatherings over the decades
Recipes/cookbooks preserved from generation to generation (original)
Hanukah, Passover, Purim, Rosh Hashanah memories and other holiday gatherings
Ramadan
Holidays of feasting with family book with details gathered over many decades as memoirs of events.
Birthdays
Weddings
Mother’s Day
Father’s Day
Children’s Day
Grandparent’s Day
Cousins’ Books
Special Anniversaries
New Home/housewarming
New Boat/Yacht
First Apartment
College Graduation
Age-related celebrations
21st Birthday
100th Birthday gift book
Cruise memories
Bon Voyage
Welcoming newcomer books
Life stories of uncles and aunts as gifts to nieces and nephews or cousins
Novel for children or other age groups and genres
Plays or skits and monologues based on real-life stories or memoirs
Poems
Songs with lyrics
Interviews
Letters collected
Change of Name
Passing driver’s license exam and getting one’s first car
Born Again Spiritual Theme
Marking each stage of life transition
Timeshare stories
Room mates/Sharing a household
Business Books
Grand openings
Success stories/case histories media book
Switching brands—why customers switched to your product
Promotions
Elections/Politicians in Office
News Clipping Collection on a Theme Gift Book
Authors’ Media Tours Gift Books
Case histories
Entertainment/Music/Theatrical
Tour Guides/travel tips/restaurant guide
Opera
Dining and Restaurants for each city
Walking Tours/Guided Tours
Museums
Galleries
Outdoor Theme parks
Local museums
Campgrounds
State Fairs
National Weeks Celebrating a Theme
Mothers Day
Children’s Day
Fathers Day
Grandparents Day
Clubs/national associations
Ethnic Themes
Historical neighborhoods/homes
Video/Virtual Reality theme parks
Volunteers’ workbook of thanks and gratitude
Professional recognition, for example for dentists and doctors or hospitals
Military recognition or Veterans tributes
Commemoration or thanks to staff tributes
Eulogies
Celebration of Life Theme Variations
Rites of Passage Rituals or Celebrations
Grand Openings
Graduations
Wedding chapel history/church history
Solving problems and getting results case histories
Branding
Retirement parties and retirement stories, tributes, or histories
roast with jokes and standup comedy routinesAppreciation book from clients, customers, employer, or employees
‘Why’ customers switched to your product book of step-by-step details that potential clients follow to solve problems and get results.
Professional associations’ events
Conventions
Public speaker’s experiences
Inventory
Political views of family members
Campaigning
Public Relations
Video news releases with similar material in paperback print as text
Courses or other instruction, tips, and strategies or techniques (how-to)
Employee’s suggestions from suggestion box saved for many decades
Inventions
New license to practice a profession
First job
Contest or competition winner
Sports achievement
Award/Hall of Fame/Historical sites/Museums/Galleries
Activities after retirement
Motivational speakers
Instructional/Educational Gift Books
Literacy Tools and Photos
Restaurant Guides with Price Ranges
Fundraising
Non-profit agencies work overseas documented
Computer camp or drama camp experiences remembered
Author’s creative salon with book reviews or poetry and photos
Writers visiting schools
Public Speakers e.g. genealogists/family historians/personal or oral historians
Target Market
Look for turning points, unique significant events, and highlights. Examples could be rites of passage and grand openings, graduations, or the start or finish of major life events. Journals and diaries may be turned into customized books. The major events would pertain to individuals and businesses, schools and organizations. Any situation that has a measurable life span, rite of passage, celebration or ritual may be turned into a book of memoirs.
Clients would ask for a variety of different-sized books or booklets and pamphlets. The length of the book as well as the number of words and pages would differ. The emphasis is on details to share or real-life stories. Each book would be sold as a gift. Customers could order a set number of books.
You keep the master copy on disk and backed up in a disk drive or put on a CD or DVD. You can offer the book in print, as a print-on-demand book saved also in your computer and if you want to add voice narration, also as an audio book and/or narrated video using photos, images, video clips, and memorabilia recorded.
You could include DNA-driven genealogy reports, maps, graphics, and interpretations in plain language. Back up any files for storage as master copies. Relatives and friends may order additional copies.
If your client is of interest in the public arena, the book also could sell as a published work. Make sure the book is copyrighted in your name and that you have all the publishing rights to the work. Your book would be based on interviews with your clients. You would also use video and audio recording your clients and transcribe the recordings as text. Anything rendered into text would be readable when technology evolved to the point that the video and audio records would not be able to be played if they were not constantly transferred from one recording medium to the next evolution of technology recording devices and players.
The reason the book is copyrighted by you as a business and not by the client is that you’re doing the writing and publishing. The client is being interviewed by phone and recorded in audio and/or video.
From this information, you are transcribing the life story or business history. Then you are editing it for grammar and spelling. You are organizing the book so that similar topics are grouped together. Then you are changing the files of what you typed as a document into a PDF file that will be transformed into a print-on-demand book.
You are designing the cover that would be given free to the client using either art or photos supplied by the client or your own graphic designs.
You can do this yourself or hire a graphic designer to design all your book covers. This artist as an independent contractor would work for a fee per book cover. Or you could ask for art or photos saved at 300 dpi as a ‘tiff’ file, with CMYK color, for example using PhotoShop software. The books could vary in size or stay a basic 6 by 9 inches. Art for the cover would be saved on a CD and mailed to you as a 6 by 9 inch file saved at 300 dpi as a ‘tiff’ file.
For all this work, you’d charge a fee that would cover writing, editing, and publishing. Production work includes designing the cover, shipping and handling, and printing on demand several authors’ copies. The client would pay for as many copies as the individual ordered.
Finally, you’d display the book’s cover and marketing information on a Web site for the client or save it to a CD and send to the client so that the client has a copy of the book in paperback, on a CD, and saved as a Web site on a CD. It’s up to the client whether to upload information about the book to a personal Web site.
You could host the Web site with the book information or catalogue, or the book can be entirely private and sent only to the client to distribute to family and friends or employees. Some books would be private, such as a child’s story. Parents wouldn’t want their child’s name and image outside of the family.
Businesses touting success stories and histories may want a book or pamphlet circulated among employees and prospective clients. How the book is presented depends upon the client’s needs and preferences.
Sharing meaning defines ‘communication.’ What you are doing is bringing to life family histories, life stories, journals, or successful business experiences. Memoirs can be presented in print or as audio and video recordings or all together.
For example, present the book in text on acid-free paper, then include a pocket or flap envelope pasted to the inner cover of the book or pamphlet containing a CD or DVD that has a video and/or audio narration with graphics such as photos as memorabilia. This three-way enhancement of a life story or business case history/success story offers reading, viewing, and listening that can extend far into the future for generations.
Interviews
Your minimum interview time with a client should be at least two hours at a time. One person could be interviewed for just two hours, or more if necessary at different appointments. Each book should contain more than 65 photos and more than 85 pages. Identify each photo with the name, the relationship, the date, location, and story surrounding the photo.
Book size can be 6 by 9 inches or larger. A square book also is fine as long as it is at least nine inches in length. Trade book size usually is 6 by 9 inches, and personal books should look similar and professionally crafted, bound, and printed with a clear, colorful cover.
You can interview several people for up to 70 or more hours to obtain all the details or as little as two hours to interview one person. If you’re charging a high-end fee, the client will want to spend a long time with your interviewers getting the details expressed so that the words and the people say what they mean and mean what they say. The most important piece of paper to have at an interview is the one with the list of questions, including questions built around the answers to prior questions.
What the Client Expects for the Fee
Each client will pay you a flat fee. The fee is based on what every item will cost you to provide. To that cost you’d add a markup that’s enough to earn you a profit, but not so high as to make a book unaffordable by the average consumer. Most books will be unique memoir books marking a special birthday or anniversary or preserving the business history of a corporation or institution such as a school, library, hospital or non-profit agency.
Cut the words down to bare bones. Use only what is necessary because each word is precious. Photographs should be clear and showcased as if they were in a digital scrapbook published print on demand as text. The paperback book also can include a multimedia DVD or CD in a sleeve pasted on the inside cover. Make sure the label is colorful on the disk and the sleeve is transparent. Let clients view the art.
The reason people hire you to write and publish a memoirs book is to have a keepsake for years into the future and for new generations. The book also is a time capsule and an ageless memory that crystallizes love as a behavior.
For business-related memoirs books, you might look for clients commemorating the opening of an institution or medical offices, hospitals, dentists’ offices, and non-profit agencies with a cause. A business-related memoirs book of success stories, case histories, and employees work histories consists of interviews that emphasize ways to thank employees, board members, foundations, staff, and volunteers for services.
Parents may want a book that showcases their child as a character in a novel or focuses on the child’s life story from birth to a certain age such as 13, for example. Genealogists and family historians look for memoirs books that contain life story details of ancestors. Older adults also may want to get important factual information on paper, including medical histories or explanations.
Birth mothers may want to send a book to a child put up for adoption explaining why they put the child up for adoption. Parents who have adopted several children might develop a book explaining the adoption stories of each child they have adopted, from what country, city, and any other information as to why they chose that child.
Many of your clients will ask for wedding books that reflect the bride, groom, and relatives, ethnic backgrounds, beliefs, or just the bride and groom and each person’s interests. Your primary focus in a wedding book is to capture positive memories.
Pet owners want their dog or cat’s personality as part of the book. Your clients also could be a zoo featuring all types of animals, an equestrian ranch, a racetrack, or any other establishment or family featuring a pet. Good leads for pet owners often are in the media. Check out the various press and public relations clubs, animal food manufacturers, and wholesalers of pet supplies.
Couples looking for Valentine’s Day presents would enjoy a book that a couple can read together each year on their anniversary or Valentine’s Day. Sports enthusiasts also like “hall of fame” type treatment in a book on sports achievements or trophies won. A book showcasing the sports history of a person who plays a lot of sports could emphasize the details of each game along with dates, locations, and events as well as sports statistics.
One of the best times to approach a potential client is when a couple becomes betrothed. At the time of engagement, people are bubbly and receptive to interviews. Ask the person what makes that individual most comfortable in an interview, and keep the tape recorder or camcorder out of site. You might try serving decaffeinated tea or herb tea and encourage a relaxed atmosphere.
Focus on how each person met and grew fond of one another. Ask each person how he or she fell in love. Include details the couple wants to include in a book that could be read by their future children. This is the type of book that will be shown to wedding guests. Emphasize how many copies should be displayed on various tables for the wedding guests to peruse and discuss.
For parents of a young child, that child’s memories saved in a book would include asking the child what makes him or her laugh. Include positive dreams and ideas. What does the child think about or do most of the time? Focus on a particular year in the child’s life that’s most meaningful at the moment. Copies of the book for the grandparents can provide happy memories as the child grows and details of childhood memories are soon forgotten.
For a baby or bridal shower, the memoirs book becomes a gift book to be kept on a coffee table. It’s a gift that friends give. Interview friends of the bride or pregnant co-worker and have each person say something memorable and positive about the person that can be shown to relatives and other friends.
Career history books can emphasize what one did in a long career such as military service. The career history book also can be combined with a retirement and leisure activities book or war stories.
Anniversary books are seen as gifts. They mark a special number such as a 10th, 25th, or 50th anniversary. Photos and interviews form the core of anniversary books. Business anniversaries also are part of corporate history books.
Collect copies of photos and interview several family members, friends, colleagues, co-workers, and employers. Gather positive comments focusing on details and memories. You could emphasize landmarks in the marriage, travels, or special times together.
Also include any events or memories of the couple before their marriage when they first met, their engagement, and life together. Significant turning points that are upbeat would be the primary focus.
Family, friends, and the couple would be re-reading the anniversary book at important times in their lives. Keep a video and audio CD or DVD inside the back cover of the book.
Have the husband and wife each write and/or read a letter to each other to be read far into the future, even when one member has passed on. The letter can be a love letter marking the most meaningful memories and saying any statement that each person wants to be remembered by.
Have each person create a motto that represents that person and/or his or her purpose or intent toward the partner. What would each person want to say to the other to be remembered? An anniversary book is moving. What can each person say to move the other to a new and wonderful state of mind?
What Do You Charge?
Each person hiring you to write a memoirs book will be paying you to reflect, reminisce, and celebrate shared or personal experiences. Memoir books motivate and inspire captured audiences of relatives and friends to share life story experiences. In the business world, history of a company can also be a family business story. For married couples or life-long partners, a memoirs book emphasizes the positive events that form patterns. The book’s purpose is to celebrate a couple’s ‘love.’
For individuals writing a memoir, personal reflection is emphasized. With a child’s story, the parents want to rekindle the same emotions felt as they watched their child mature. Memory books are gifts.
They can showcase an employee’s work history and be given by an employer as a retirement present. The outcome is a coffee-table type book that’s also an ageless time capsule combining colorful photos and text.
With the addition of a DVD or CD in a transparent plastic sleeve pasted on the inside cover of the book, when the reader has finished the text and photos portion, a video and/or audio disk can be played on most DVD and/or CD players or computers that can present a slide show, narrated life story video or audio file. That multimedia portion can emphasize a special event or turning point of an individual or couple’s life.
Before you set a price, produce one coffee-table memoirs book on yourself or on one of your relatives and keep tabs of the time it takes you. Each person works at a different rate. If you work on the book 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, it will take at least four or five work days or more to complete one book.
What would you like to get paid for one forty-hour workweek? How much do your materials cost? Is the book affordable to most of your potential clients? What type of client are you approaching?
Have you contacted wedding planners to let them know of your service and fees? What you charge depends on how many pages your client wants a book to be. Will it be a short booklet or pamphlet, or a novel-sized memoirs book?
To develop both a money budget and time budget, you need to list all the software and supplies you’ll have to buy. How many independent contractors will you retain? What will you pay each person? Can you do all the graphics, writing, and software manipulation to create the book by yourself? Would you limit yourself to one book and one client at a time?
Training Required
If you’re a digital scrap booker, you have most of the skills. The skill you’ll need to learn from there is how to turn a PDF file into a print-on-demand paperback book. The companies making the software can guide you to the tutorials. There also are professional associations you can join and learn from the members. Some national associations offer seminars, courses, or conferences.
Can you bind the book? If not, how much can you afford to pay a printer to bind your books? Until you’ve put a book together from scratch, don’t approach clients because you’ll need sample books to show. Your work of art is actually a print-on-demand paperback book featuring many photos interlaced with text.
You’ll have to oversee each stage of the process while keeping in constant contact with your client. Each process will have to be approved by your client.
It’s important to get half payment up front before you begin to interview any client. Setbacks could include the client going away for extended periods of time while you’re waiting for approval and permission to move onto the next stage or phase of the interviewing, recording, organizing, editing, revising, and re-writing process before coordination between text and photos is begun. Only then can you move onto the publishing process.
When the book is published, your client decides whether to make a video or audio DVD or CD to include in the back of the book to accent the text and photos. This recording process using video clips from the life of the client takes more time and editing.
You don’t have to offer a video or audio disk along with the book, but it does enhance the book and makes it possible to put the book and multimedia presentation on a disk to send to relatives. Since many people don’t like to read from a computer screen or watch a video, the book in text form is necessary for preserving the keepsake album feel of the memory book of text and photos.
Before you begin, you can have different budgets for a variety of clients. Some will want the book as a video and/or audio disk included in the paperback print on demand book. Others may only want to pay for a paperback or hard cover book or a smaller pamphlet.
Once you’ve set up a time and money budget, explore with potential clients what each person would most likely want in a coffee-table memoirs book that can be passed around the friends and family at gatherings. A book of this nature also appeals to houses of worship and to public speakers that share inspirational or motivational communication with a variety of audiences or clients.
What Items Do You Need to Compile Money and Time Budgets?
Before you can determine what to charge your client for a personal memoirs book or business case history success story media kit, you’ll need the following basic items to start:
1 computer
1 printer
1 bookbinding machine
Telephone
Internet service
Web site
DVD discs
CD discs
DVD recording device or disk drive
DVD playing device
Interviewers in various states on call as independent contractors
Adobe PhotoShop software
Microsoft Word software or equivalent for book manuscript writing, organizing, and editing
PDF software that turns Microsoft Word files into PDF files in a book template
Printer or printing service that works with digital imaging if you don’t have the software yourself.
Print-on-demand publishing techniques
Scanner for photos
Tape recorder and player, digital audio recorder, or CD player…
Telephone pickup device for recorder interviews via phone
Camcorder for recording videos of life stories…Industrial quality preferred, although a digital high 8 camcorder or DVD camcorder can sometimes produce amateur-type personal history videos good enough in quality and resolution to be sent to numerous TV stations as freelance documentaries or news reporting.
FireWire 1394 cable to connect your camcorder to your computer
Software and hardware to capture video from your camcorder to your computer hard disk drive and then to save the file as a video on a DVD after editing
Software that edits video and audio files on your computer
Sound recording software such as Total Recorder
Microphone for your camcorder and for your computer
Your personal memoirs or business history book service will operate similar to most print-on-demand book publishing companies, but on a smaller scale. A client will pay you to write and publish a memoirs or business history book containing photos and transcribed interviews.
The client will send you the photos either saved as a 300 dpi .tiff file on a CD or DVD or the client will email the original photos to you. You’ll need 6 by 9 inch photos for the book cover and 3 by 4 inch photos for the author’s photo.
With original photos, you’ll have to scan them into your computer and save them at 300 dpi as ‘tiff’ files using the CMYK color setting in PhotoShop. Promptly return original photos to the author. You can have a copy made for yourself to keep with your master file.
Give the author a copy of your files pertaining to that author’s book. This master file will help the author make copies with other printers if you should move or close the business. Keep a copy for yourself as the author may lose or damage the copy and ask for another.
Check out the InstaBook ™ Print on Demand Web site at:
http://www.instabook-corporation.com/
. There you can find out that it takes 23 steps the old fashioned way to publish a book. InstaBook ® Corporation is the premier supplier of the technology required to design, print and bind a book on demand anywhere on earth. The InstaBook ™ allows you to utilize InstaBook ® Maker III equipment.The problem you need to solve is to figure out your cost of publishing per book. When you have a client who only wants a few books, you need to solve the problem of mass-production versus price.
You’d use print on demand publishing. For example, using the InstaBook ® Maker you don't need to print thousands of books to get the benefits of high-volume pricing. Each book you produce using InstaBook® Maker systems will have a cost per unit similar to the costs per unit of a 10,000 run. If you had used the old fashioned method of publishing that you might see in a 1980-style print shop, you would need to print 10,000 copies of a book to get the same price per unit.
That’s why for clients paying you a flat fee to compile and publish memoirs gift books, print on demand publishing is the way to go. No book actually is printed until someone wants to buy the book. At that time the book is printed and sent within 7-10 days to your client.
You charge the client the cost per book that it takes you to print one copy and any charges for shipping and handling, such as the cost of the box the book is packed in. How many other charges do you have besides the labor of interviewing, recording, transcribing, organizing, writing, and editing the book? Make your time and money budgets by listing each step needed in the process to produce a book.
Distribution costs and sales of the book are up to your client. You’re paid only to produce a few authors’ copies for the person ordering a personal memoirs book.
If employees of a company are made aware of a book on the business history of a corporation, each employee of that company on a voluntary basis can order the book from you, perhaps from a listing on your client’s company’s Web site. If you’re producing a family history book, each relative and friend can order the book from you directly. You publish the book print on demand and send each copy to whoever orders the book.
You don’t have to worry about getting into Books in Print, into the big chain bookstores, or about paying a large distributor such as Ingram. After all, you’re not publishing a book for distribution other than to your client and his or her family or to a corporation and its employees.
Success Stories--Corporate
Success storybooks are one branch of the occupation of book packager. You’d put together success stories of a company and create a book targeted to the media. This type of book is called a media book. You’d interview satisfied clients of a company, ask them why they switched from one company’s product to another company’s product, and then collect success stories for the perusal of select media.
Your interview questions would focus on what step-by-step procedure was taken to solve a problem or achieve results. Ask about benefits and advantages. An excellent example of a “media book” is available to the press is titled, Media Guide on Food Safety and Nutrition 2004-2006, published by the International Food Information Council. See the council’s Web site at: http://ific.org.
Why did they switch? Software is an excellent product to interview satisfied customers about, emphasizing why they changed software and what they liked about it. This success story approach can be done with interviews about many other types of products, from cars to pet food. Choose a product that’s individual enough. Some products have different labels or distributors, but all come from the same manufacturer.
As a case history manager, you’d collect the success stories from satisfied clients and record interviews by phone. Then you’d write a series of news releases about one and a half pages in length.
Each success story would be put into a book to be presented to the press as part of the company’s public relations and marketing communications department. The collection of success stories should be consistent in length and presented in book form and/or electronically to select media. It would be up to the public relations director of the particular corporation to select which media would get a copy of the “media book” that you’d publish for a corporation.
To drum up business, contact the director of media relations, the marketing communications manager and the public relations director of each corporation that interest you. Then pitch to each corporation that you would like to write a media book for select reporters based on you being allowed to interview satisfied customers on why they switched to a particular company’s product.
Emphasize details and benefits. Most likely to hire outside publishers and book packagers are new software firms that have public relations departments used to hiring independent contractors. Have some ‘mock’ sample media books published already to show them your work. You may focus on a particular niche such as mall grand openings.
You’ll need a portfolio of your work as an interviewer, writer, and publisher. Practice with text and imaging software. Then approach potential clients. Have good samples to show.
If you need to use hired printers and interviewers, have your team help you create some samples to show of your memoirs books, gift books, or business case history success storybooks. You can work entirely in text and photos or vary your output with video and audio multimedia productions or slide presentations for business meetings and conventions.
If you want to publish memoirs books, work with genealogists, family history researchers, wedding or event planners, oral historians, librarians, and publishers. Contact associations related to genealogy or DNA-driven genealogy. Memoirs books can be combined with the design of keepsake albums.
You also can branch into digital scrap booking using photo-imaging software and text with other graphics to produce gift books. Emphasize events, celebrations and commemorations for different stages of life, graduations, and rites of passage if you want to work with families or schools and hospitals instead of manufacturers.
E-Books (Electronic Gift Books)
Electronic book (E-book) readers let you take your favorite books and magazines in digital form, usually saved as PDF files. These types of books are lighter to carry than the average paperback book. Most clients asking you to publish a memoirs book will not want an E-book or electronic book.
In addition to a printed paperback or hard cover book, you might want to put an electronic book on a CD or DVD. Then send it along with the book for those who like to read electronic books (E-books) in handheld devices.
To create an E-book, all you need to do with your written book that says it’s copyrighted in your name with the year, is save it in digital format such as a Microsoft Word document cut and pasted into Microsoft Front Page software (that creates files compatible with Web sites).
You then save the document as a Web page. When you’ve finished creating your Web page in Front Page software or used one of the free Web site services online, you just upload or send your book to the Web page. You can view it there or download it and save it on a disk or in your computer.
Use your search engine to find which sites offer free Web space for your book. Also you can contact an e-publisher online that already provides a Web site to showcase the memoirs book. If you use a print on demand publisher, the charge can range from 300 to 700 dollars to set up your book.
Some publishers also charge you a monthly or annual fee per book just to host it on their Web site or keep it posted with major distributors online. To avoid these types of costs, buy your own print on demand equipment and publish one memoirs book at a time for each client. If you have only a few clients at one time, you’d only have to print a few copies for each client’s circle of family and friends.
You control how many clients you want to take at one time, like a literary agent or event planner. If you are a wedding planner or genealogist you might want to add a sideline of publishing memoirs books. People who work with older adults also might have an interest in interviewing and presenting life stories in life long learning settings from senior centers to extended studies programs at universities for active people in retirement.
Adult continuing education classes and gerontologists as well as family historians may all have an interest in memoirs books. It’s not only for older adults, but for new parents documenting a child’s growth stages or teenagers marking the taking on of responsibility. All these life stages can be incorporated into such a gift book.
E books are read with E-book readers. These are usually free, downloadable software that enables a viewer to read an E-book. Examples of E-book readers that are free and available on the Web include Adobe Reader, which is free and downloadable at:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
. Microsoft E-book reader is at the Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/reader/default.asp.Many popular and/or best-selling books also may contain formats that can be read by E-book reader software. You can use the free E-book readers online by downloading them or buy professional-type E-book reading software such as eReader Pro for Palm Os. That Web site is at: http://www.ereader.com/products/ereader/pro.
Some people use hand-held devices such as Pocket PC to read electronic books. Other people prefer to listen to an audio book instead of reading text on a computer screen or on a hand-held device’s small screen.
Audio gift books may be narrated and saved as MP3 files so that people can buy the book to download on an iPod or other mobile listening or viewing device. Or the audio book may be saved on a CD or DVD or uploaded to the Web as an audio podcast which is an audio file under compression.
The MP3 audio file takes up less bandwidth space online than other types of audio files. There are numerous E-book publishers online, but you can obtain E-book publishing software and circulate your own gift books.
The most popular way to market a gift book is to have text and photos that can be handed down to future generations as keepsakes and heirlooms, as if they were scrap books combined with life stories you can read for hours as you thumb through the pictures and the details of the experiences in text as paperback or hardback books. Then slip out a CD or DVD in a book’s inside back cover and pop into your DVD player. Suddenly, the life story, wedding, historic site, or other event becomes a ‘movie.’
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Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” __ Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819***
101 Uses & Goals of Multimedia Creative Writing Therapy with Background Music: Why Use Creative Writing Therapy?
Highly recommended is the excellent handbook titled, Biblio/Poetry Therapy: The Interactive Process: A Handbook, by Arleen McCarty Hynes and Mary Hynes-Berry, North Star Press of St Cloud, Inc., 1994. According to the book, Arleen Hynes, O.S.B., “established the first hospital-based training program in bibliotherapy in 1974 at St. Elizabeths in Washington, DC.” (Dr. Mary Hynes-Berry is a professional writer.) The book is excellent for understanding how literature can be used as a healing tool.
Now, my own premise is that music therapy also may be added to the background with the use of creative writing therapy and biblio-poetry therapy. In creative writing therapy, I would make full use of the Internet for multimedia—music, visual imagery, and text so that sound and words surround the images, engaging all the senses of virtual reality.
For writers to use music and words as healing tools, reading and viewing are done to inspire. Keep files organized and handy on all your resources so that you know where everything is and can bring up instantly what is needed. The following are 101 projects to start using creative writing therapy with music therapy as background inspiration.
- Locate feelings and express feelings in words against a background of music that enhances feelings related to the words.
- Craft a story reflecting foresight, insight, and hindsight.
- Reflect on the meaning of a particular experience or your lifestyle.
- Deepen your understanding of your self-perception.
- Discover new parts of your self and others.
- Celebration of Life reading, ceremony, or celebration.
- Express your feelings and your logic.
- Explore your relationships.
- Understand where you came from and who you are or will be.
- Express connections to a former time.
- Plan the future.
- Put in words what’s important to you.
- Use music and multimedia to visualize words for personal growth.
- Create dialogue using two empty chairs.
- Write to achieve closure.
- Put conflict to rest and forgive yourself.
- Create a journal for self-exploration.
- Use music as a healing tool along with words put to the feeling the music creates.
- Choreograph poetry to music.
- Write salable books for any age group based on poems, song lyrics, or significant events.
- Create time capsules on discs, in text, and in multimedia formats. Transcribe recordings of oral history.
- Discuss your publicly allowed military service experiences.
- Teach others all the lessons you’ve learned from living your life.
- Give travel tips to others about the places you’ve been to and stayed at.
- Write about how your animals changed your life.
- Discuss what you learned from others about money or your work-life.
- How did you handle challenges?
- Do believe in a life purpose or going with the flow—whever life takes you as you float like flotsam in an eternal ocean of time?
- What would you like from life?
- Write about how you feel about your power of control.
- How did music change your writing?
- What family events do you want to share with others?
- What events most changed your own life?
- Do you have a purpose, goal, or objective?
- What would you like to share with future generations reading your work?
- What would you put into a time capsule?
- When did you first become aware of yourself?
- What would you most like to understand about life?
- Utilize music with Bibliotherapy classes for teaching mature behavior and transcending past choices or mistakes for closure, forgiveness, or simply moving on by resolving problems and getting measurable results to put into a notebook, computer, or time capsule
- Prison Writing Therapy groups, hospital, and institutional settings provide an interactive process of combining reading, writing, and music, even with graphic novels and cartoons
- Writing with Mental Patients for Healing is an interactive process
- Writing for people with disabilities using developmental bibliography
- Writing for the Blind
- Writing for Deaf using Sign Language (note how adjectives are described in sign language)
- Writing for Teachers of Poetry and Fiction
- Music Therapy for Fiction Authors
- Using prose collections from many cultures
- Reading and writing women’s life stories
- Writing for survival
- Writing about transforming, transcending, or closure
- Writing to organize activities
- Cleaning and sorting your life’s turning points
- Discussing Choices
- Training Bibliotherapists
- Obtaining training in poetry therapy
- Using food writing to teach nutrition therapy
- Discussing classic books moved into present times
- Writing how music therapy is used to inspire fiction writing
- Using writing skills to invent board games
- Volunteering as a writer in institutional settings
- Organizing writing groups in various houses of worship
- Teaching writers how to critique without bringing attention to how smart or right the critic is by finding subjective flaws in other writers’ manuscripts—being objective and tactful while being logical
- Treating other writers as you would like to be treated
- Work with the effects of time on manuscripts and people
- Writing about family life turning points
- Write about how parents make the same mistakes their children will
- Write about joy and balancing happiness with nutrition
- Before you write, think of “what would xyz do” and write about that compared to what you would do.
- Write about how to find someone’s true character by watching them drive or act toward people who can’t promote their careers or income
- Write about how and why you care
- Write about how to be kind when no one is looking
- Create interactive games that use writing skills
- Use metaphors to inspire writing
- Write fiction using active verbs and fewer adjectives
- Plan a meeting or party that’s on a bus line so non-drivers who write can attend.
- Every writer has a story to offer that’s worth a novel, play, or skit
- Write about how customers treat food servers in restaurants
- Go undercover and write about your minimum-wage temporary jobs
- Write about friends who keep in contact for a lifetime
- Collect the writings that come out of school 50-year reunions for inspiration
- Write about the friends you can trust
- Write about how people drive and how it relates to their character
- Explain how young people each have a voice of resilience and write about what that voice is saying
- Explore the lives of women immigrants and their writings. How does their life stories compare with your own?
- Would you rather write using breadth or depth in your stories, books, or articles?
- What cultures would you focus on to write about the rich literature that shaped your own family’s history?
- How would you write about understanding your own mothers and grandmothers?
- What is the way of life you embrace? How would you write about it?
- As a writer, how do you understand the women and men who brought you here?
- Use biographical dictionaries to inspire you to write creatively as a healing tool. What do the biographical dictionaries say about women writers from a wide variety of cultures? How can you use the various biographies in your own writing?
- Explore the voices of female writers and compare them to male writers in different time periods of your choice.
- Form a diverse study group whose aim is to read original works by a group of authors of your choice. Who has translated these authors so you can read them? They can be women, immigrants, teenagers, older adults, or any group at a stage of life or from a particular group.
- Study literature as a powerful political statement before you write biography or fiction.
- Explore women’s lifestyles and men’s comparative experiences in villages around the world or in one area of your group’s focus.
- How did the perceptions of women as writers differ from those of male counterparts?
- Capture the spirit of matriarchal and patriarchal life in any city of your choice at any time.
- Write a time-travel adventure of any length
- How would you begin to find out more about yourself, discover who you are, based on your heritage, genealogy, or from reading writers similar to yourself?
- Illuminate the world of your ancestors, recent or in the distant past by writing and reading their writings of their own life experiences.
- Make your writing accessible to the public by holding press conferences as a writer’s or book discussion group. Explore authors’ parties with the press invited.
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Work with
translators to get the writing of little known authors readable in your
own language. Then polish the writing of the translators or learn from
them how they polish the writing when one language is translated into
another. Make your writing an historical document as well as a literary
piece. Your life story has historical value. Use time capsules, archival
and/or oral history university libraries, and heirloom keepsakes.
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"They're library dogs, Charlie. They're all dog-faces," laughed the space station manager, as he waved goodnight to his security dogs and locked the gates. "They're not just dogs with jobs, but detective canines with investigative sniffing careers at the space station and in outer space." Read more |
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Who's Buying
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Employment
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July 30, 2007; 216 pages
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Ethno-Playography:
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July 27, 2007; 651 pages
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How to Video
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July 10, 2007; 195 pages
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How to Launch a
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How to Open
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How to Start
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Proper Parenting
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101 Ways to Find
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How to Refresh
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102 Ways to
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Creating Family
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Social Smarts
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How to Start
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A Perfect
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Diet Fads,
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Infant Gender
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Writing,
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Large Print
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Predictive
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Popular Health &
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Writing
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Dramatizing 17th
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Problem-Solving
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Writing 7-Minute
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Ancient and
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801 Action Verbs
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Search Your
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Writer's Guide
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Creative
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Find Your
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How to Safely
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One Day Some
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The Beginner's
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How to Make
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The DNA
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How to Make
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