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How Goodreads Helped Me Find My Memories

By Elle Klock @elleklock

November 4, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How Goodreads Helped Me Find My Memories

My “2019” shelf sat, neatly and chronologically ordered for me to peruse. Month by month, the books I had slogged through and the books that shone brilliantly awakened in my memory, but something else happened too. I began to remember other parts of my life in those months.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: Archives, books, browsing, connections, digital, forgotten, goodreads, history, linear time, lists, loss, memory, network, Online, past, Reading, remember, Social Media, time loss

Editing Trauma

By Grace Hansen @thegracieve

July 1, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Editing Trauma

William Faulkner said, “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” A good editor knows that this process is sometimes painful to the author because their words are their babies. How, then, is an editor to approach nonfiction trauma manuscripts when an author’s words are their nightmares?

Filed Under: Editing, Publishing Tagged With: anger, censor, censoring, chronology, criticism, death, Editing, editor, feedback, grief, honesty, memoir, memory, non-fiction, pacing, rape scenes, sexual assault, trauma, traumatic, trigger, trust, writing

Memory and Truth: How to Classify Nonfiction Titles

By Rachel Palmer

December 3, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Memory and Truth: How to Classify Nonfiction Titles

If that’s the case, why does nonfiction allow something as unreliable as memories? The idea is that the writer is truly recounting the memory, not whether or not it actually occurred. The experience is born out of the memory of the event. A memoir is a recounting of memory. It has to be a truthful recounting of only what’s remembered and what is researched.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Craft, creative-nonfiction, Essay, Facts, Immersion, Literary Nonfiction, memoir, memory, nonfiction, Personal Essay, research, Truth, writing

The Power of Stories: Narrative Psychology in Publishing

By Megan Doyle

April 29, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Power of Stories: Narrative Psychology in Publishing

Beyond the ability to hold an enthusiastic reader’s rapt attention or gain a bestseller’s widespread audience, stories have a power that most people take for granted. They contribute to the way we perceive and process our own experiences. Psychologists who study this power call it narrative psychology. Narrative psychology is described as a burgeoning field […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: A Series of Small Maneuvers, books, brain, Eliot Treichel, memory, narrative psychology, Ooligan, psychology, Reading, stories

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