The book later became a children’s choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association.Īwards received by subsequent books include her second novel – My Name is Sus5an Smith. The same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest, leading to its publication. While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English. The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota. Louise Plummer is a noted author, young adult fiction writer and a retired associate professor of English for Brigham Young University. Thus, we will be participating in timed-writings, and reading these aloud to each other.Īnn Cannon and I will teach two hours of the class together and then split up for our individual classes. Memory is often enhanced by fast writing, allowing the subconscious to give up its secrets. Such personal writing is an “attempt.” It is a try at the truth. The aim of the memoir is not to nail down facts, but to remember what has happened over time, to the tantalizing, dismaying, broken bits of our life’s history. This course will have you write stories from your life from memory. Whether you’re writing for your family or for a publisher, discover and pass along the stories from your own life to your children or to the world.
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