GO ON, TRY my interactive calendar of emotional high holy days, regular-version high holy days and more. It’s probably my number one memoir writing tip, since writing on deadline, or to a deadline, is one of the single best ways to learn how to write memoir.
How to Use the Memoir Project Calendar
Hover your cursor over a cinnamon-colored date to see what pops up. Use it to start personal essays, radio pieces and op-eds to submit on deadline. How? Look three months out for radio ideas; six to twelve for magazine pieces. Pluck something from the calendar and start now to submit the very best work you can produce.
Here is how to stop using writing prompts and writing exercises, those time-wasting devices leave you merely practicing writing. You want to write with intent, and you want to succeed. So start today and do so.
Write with intent: Pick it, write it, submit it. Read and react. You’re a writer. That’s what writers do. So write on.
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19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24June, 24 2023Midsummer DayAccording to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, today is known as Midsummer day. This is an ancient festival, relating to a special day of the year we celebrated this past Tuesday the summer solstice. A solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice each year – once in winter and once in summer – when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is most inclined toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun’s apparent position in the sky to reach its northernmost or southernmost extreme. In this case, of course, we in the northern hemisphere are tilted toward the warmth. Midsummer celebrations are pre-Christian in origin and vary from culture to culture, though many include the belief that mid-summer plants had miraculous healing powers and they therefore picked them on this night. Last night was Midsummer’s Eve – the night before Midsummer’s Day, a time for fairies and magic. Sound familiar? Dos it sound, perhaps, Shakespearean? It should. | 25 |
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