March 12, 2025
USE THE CALENDAR. It’s the best way I know to choose memoir topics and get memoir ideas. This is advice I give all the...
March 8, 2016
Welcome to my Deadline Formula Calendar, where you are going to learn how to choose and meet writing deadlines, makes those deadlines every time and...
February 1, 2012
YOUR BLOG AWAITS. You write about your life. In other words, you write what you know. But right now you feel like you don’t...
January 11, 2012
It’s Wednesday, it’s winter, and some people are having a little more trouble than usual getting out of bed. Well, you’re not alone.
December 31, 2011
ESCHEW WRITING PROMPTS. Be hospitable. Ask Amy. Use the algorithm. Those are four of my five countdown-to-the-new-year memoir writing resolutions. And number five? Here’s...
December 5, 2011
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...
October 17, 2011
A RECENT ONLINE MEMOIR CLASS class began much like every online memoir class I’ve taught. No one had agreed to this beforehand. No one...
September 24, 2010
Your New Best Friend:The Deadline Calendar GO ON, TRY my interactive calendar of emotional high holy days, regular-version high holy days and more. It’s...
January 15, 2025
WRITE IT DOWN. I tell this to my memoir students all the time. Carry a notebook, index cards, write on your hands if you...
October 6, 2023
HOW TO BREAK INTO publishing in a non-traditional way is the area of expertise of Roxan McDonald, who quit the nonprofit world to dedicate...
May 14, 2021
ALEXANDRA STAFFORD IS A food writer, cooking teacher, and author of the fabulous cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs, my copy of which is nearly always...
February 7, 2021
DEVI LASKAR knows about writing through the darkness. Not that long ago, the Georgia State Police mistakenly raided her home at gunpoint and, after...
