Rogue Journalist : Writing My Memoir Palin-Style

If Sarah Palin can write a memoir in four months, can I write my life story in an afternoon?

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When I heard that Sarah Palin wrote her upcoming 400-page autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life , in four months, I thought, What took her so long? To prove that introspection doesn't need to be time-consuming, I decided to try to write my memoir in one day. Since Palin had a ghostwriter, I figured it was only fair that I have help too, so I called Neil Strauss, who co-wrote the best-selling memoirs of Marilyn Manson, Mötley Crüe, Dave Navarro and Jenna Jameson. Strauss and fellow ghostwriter Anthony Bozza run an imprint called Igniter, which — after training people to...

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