Beth Kaplan

True to Life: Fifty Steps to Help You Write Your Story Beth Kaplan

In fifty informative and inspiring steps, Beth Kaplan shows you how to write your story by putting on your writer's hat, then your editor's hat, then digging down to bring out the vital details of the story, and finally living the writing life. Steps include:

• Read Like a Writer
• Unleash the "I" Word
• Claim Your Truth
• Write from Scars, Not Wounds
• Enter the Marketplace

EDITORIAL REVIEWS
"This book is fabulous: a user-friendly, down-to-earth, accessible guide to writing that simplifies the complex without making it simplistic, taking readers through the mechanics from the initial brainstorm to the final edit."
--Wendy Litner, Huffington Post writer, lawyer, writing student

"I can't imagine a better distillation of Beth's wisdom and experience than this invaluable companion for writers, presented in clear, thoughtful steps that build on one another. True to Life is the perfect guide for beginners as well as veteran memoirists."
--Chris Cameron, writer, editor, writing student

"Go ahead, make me famous."
--Wayson Choy, writing teacher and renowned author of The Jade Peony, Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying, and other books.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BETH KAPLAN began her work as a professional actress and left the stage at thirty to earn an MFA in creative writing at University of British Columbia. She has been teaching memoir and personal essay writing at Ryerson University since 1994 and since 2007 also at the University of Toronto, where recently she was given the Excellence in Teaching award. Her personal essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines and on CBC Radio. She is the author of Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin (University of Syracuse Press), a biography of her great-grandfather, and the Sixties memoir All My Loving: Coming of Age with Paul McCartney in Paris (BPS Books).