SOME TIME AGO, I learned from an expert the exquisite skill of how to use lists to write memoir. It happened one night in a class and no one who witnessed it was unchanged. This was when I still … [Read more...] about How to Use Lists to Write Memoir: In Memoriam to the Best List Writer I’ve Known
Writing Lessons: Writing for An Audience
LOCATING AN AUDIENCE is the ultimate chicken and egger of writing. Do you think about them before you write, as you write, or only after you write? These are questions I get all the time. And they may … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Writing for An Audience
The List That Helps With Loss, Part 2
A SISTER-FRIEND FROM my memoir class, writer and yoga instructor Joely Johnson Mork, once made a list that I have written about, given talks about, and which I hold in the highest esteem. Do you make … [Read more...] about The List That Helps With Loss, Part 2