Writing a winning biography of christopher
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Top 5 Things Learned Writing My First Biography
by Chris Lentz
Every “book baby” presents challenges.
Writing a winning biography of christopher
But when I was honored to be asked to write the biography of an incredible entrepreneur and philanthropist—who’d just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which briskly became a death sentence—my latest book baby became a unique challenge altogether.
As if the project wasn’t daunting enough, the subject was my father-in-law.
I write fiction, but I found that much of the strategy and craft authors use with a romance or a thriller applies to constructing a biography, like:
- Introducing
the hero and his/her dreams and desires - Enabling
readers to experience the hero’s journey, with its many conflicts and conquests - Presenting
the hero’s transformation
After researching, compiling and writingOpening Doors: Jim Swenson’s Life of Grit, Gratitude and Giving, I came away with a list of top five lessons.
They may work for you. They may not. All I know is this approach resulted