storytelling Archives - Dorit Sasson

Interview with Pittsburgh-based Lynda Schuster about her memoir of her life as a foreign correspondent and ambassador’s wife

Dorit Admin 2018-03-09T18:30:15+00:00 March 5th, 2018|memoir writing, pain stories, storytelling|

Journalism. Memoir. Just seeing the two words side by side beckons contrast. One's factual, the other largely personal. One's reporting, the other is scene-driven. And yet, if you linger a bit between the two, you'll start to see some subtle overlap. Reporters hook their readers with scenes. Memoirists to report things I am forever fascinated by [...]

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How The Courage to Send My Son to Sleepaway Camp Changed My Life

Dorit Admin 2016-06-16T17:52:15+00:00 June 16th, 2016|courage, defining moments, faith, joy, mindset, new memoir, pain stories, reflective thinking, storytelling, success, the heroine's journey, transformation, vulnerability, writing|

They say that you develop courage when you're thrown into new situations and for the parents among us, our resilience is constantly tested. Especially when we're sending our kids off to summer camp. I've always been a worrier. And a catastrophizer. If you've gotten to know me from my memoir Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of [...]

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The First 3 Courage Scenes that Didn’t Make It Into Accidental Soldier

Dorit Admin 2015-08-04T03:21:36+00:00 August 4th, 2015|memoir writing, new memoir, Pubslush, storytelling, the heroine's journey, Uncategorized, vulnerability|

This coming of age story of transformation and personal growth is uniquely told from a female immigrant serving in the Israel Defense Forces. This post focuses on all the juicy bits - the scenes of courage that aren't in the memoir, from the scary to the unexpected. 1. Learning about mines on the Israeli-Syrian border. [...]

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Blogging the Themes of My Memoir: Trying to Find a Home while Serving on a Kibbutz (Israel Defense Forces)

Dorit Admin 2014-06-03T12:24:10+00:00 June 3rd, 2014|blogging, defining moments, memoir writing, new memoir, storytelling, writing|

Doritos? Like what the fuck? How did he know to call me that name? He’s a Brit. They don’t have Doritos over there. Or do they? I want to tell him to go to hell. To shut the fuck up. I’ve been traumatized by the name “Doritos” all my public school life and right now, [...]

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How I Got to “BreakthroughLand” with My Memoir, “Silence: What the Israel Defense Forces Taught Me About Faith, Courage and Empowerment

Dorit Admin 2016-03-18T22:46:06+00:00 May 22nd, 2014|author platform, defining moments, memoir writing, new memoir, storytelling, transformational author experience, writing, writing as inspiration|

Each day when I go to write at our local library or our neighborhood coffee shop to write my memoir, Silence: What the Israel Defense Forces Taught Me about Faith, Empowerment and Courage, I'm already filled up with nervous anticipation: will I make progress with this scene? Can I get into the right mood and [...]

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