Step-by-Step Makes Memoir Easier
Each step is a manageable, doable task. One day at a time, each step takes you closer to your goal. Once you get going, you can also look at: Leaving a legacy for your children and grandchildren...
View ArticleWriting All the Time?
There are times I have been too busy to write with a child or my day job, family or social plans. Sometimes all my time goes into the business side of queries, proposals, agents,working with an editor...
View ArticleWriting Groups
I have been in various writing groups over the past twenty-five years. Some have been very helpful while others have hurt my writing and probably my feelings too which almost made me lose my motivation...
View ArticleContribution as a Reason to Motivate Writing (A Memoir)
Some writers find the motivation to write a memoir by their belief their story will help others. That sense of contribution can really help keep the writer connected to the reader by including only...
View ArticleConfessional Style of Writing
Some intellectuals put down the personal or feeling modes of writing. However, there is a place for the confessional style of writing no matter what these literary lions say. Just look at the growth of...
View ArticleAn Alternative Way to Write a Memoir/Journal Keeping
Salt and Paper: 65 Candles A daily reflection that is immediate and an accumulation of life experience in poetry and prose fragments placing a heartfelt yet realistic light on difficult subjects as...
View ArticleOrdinary Life into Memoir A Plus
Readers are interested in how ordinary people solved a situation and made “good” of it. Famous is fine to read but it’s people like the reader that they can best relate to. For those of us who live...
View ArticleMemoir as Revenge
What should we do when we want revenge in memoir? One thing I would caution you not to write about or do is revenge. It is never okay to write for the public with the motive of revenge. Write your own...
View ArticleProfessional Help for Writer’s Block
Writer’s block is something with which some therapists or counselors are used to dealing. If you want to hire someone to help you, chose someone who shows on their web site that they have a creative...
View ArticleTrust in the Way You Write: Your Style, Your Organization, Your Schedule
Writers like Toni Morrison or very poetic writers are interested in where “the golden thread is going.” It wouldn’t be fun to write if they knew everything they wanted to say. They write from a...
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