Fort Worth, TX Quinn Publications announces the release of Simple Scenes: How To Write Your Memoir Like a Stage Play, an innovative new guide from author and national columnist Rix Quinn. He now reveals a simple but transformative method for writing compelling life stories as short, dramatic scenes.
Drawing from over 35 years of biographical writing, Quinn shows readers how to turn personal moments into memorable, 300–500 word “Simple Scenes.” These are miniature, stage-like episodes packed with emotion, clarity, and purpose.
Instead of long chapters or complex chronology and timelines, Simple Scenes teaches writers to focus on life-changing moments, and to express them with storytelling structure.
The book guides readers through crafting story lines, using conflict effectively, building scenes sentence-by-sentence, and applying techniques borrowed from flash fiction, journalism, advertising, and theater. Quinn also shares his Declare-Prepare method for holding reader attention, plus strategies for creating unforgettable titles, and writing with sixth-grade clarity to make every scene engaging and accessible.
Simple Scenes is ideal for aspiring memoirists, students, business professionals, speakers, and anyone wanting to preserve family history or share meaningful experiences.
Its compact structure mirrors a modern reader’s short attention span and offers a practical solution for creating separate stories that can be published, shared online, or anthologized – gathered together — under a single theme to form a book-length manuscript.
Quinn, whose humor feature Quinn Minute is distributed to over 200 newspapers, brings a lifetime of communication expertise to this book. As he states in the Preface, “Don’t tell me your life story. Just tell me the special, unforgettable moments that changed your life.”
About the Author
Rix Quinn is a humorist, columnist, and longtime Fort Worth resident. He holds degrees in journalism and liberal arts, with emphasis in biography and anthropology. He has written for national magazines, radio networks, and hundreds of newspapers.
Availability
Simple Scenes: How To Write Your Memoir Like a Stage Play is now available for readers who want to turn their memories into meaningful, publishable stories.
