I DELIBERATELY LIVE NEAR WHAT I CALL the E-Triangle. It’s my own designation, and not one you’ll find on a map, but one that I consider my own personal place of deep inspiration. Perhaps you have one … [Read more...] about How to Get Writing Inspiration In Your Own Backyard
Join Me Writing Memoir on Pinterest
CREATIVE INSPIRATION COMES at you from every direction. In this time of hyper-media involvement, we can sometimes simply want to duck. But don't. I mean, why should you when I am willing to taking on … [Read more...] about Join Me Writing Memoir on Pinterest
How To Write Memoir: Be Your Own Cavalry
YOU ARE YOUR OWN CAVALRY. That’s the truth. As writers, we must come to our own rescue and show up with the goods. Another way I phrase this is by referring to myself "as a factory of one." And I am. … [Read more...] about How To Write Memoir: Be Your Own Cavalry
How to Get to Your Best Memoir Writing
THE BEST MEMOIR WRITING knows its limits. It does not take on too much. It does not take on too little. It takes on exactly enough and stays with it until it’s done. To illustrate this idea in my … [Read more...] about How to Get to Your Best Memoir Writing
Memoir Editor? Developmental Editor? What’s in a Name?
APPARENTLY I AM A DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR for memoir. I had not know that until recently when four separate email inquiries came in using that phrase. Huh, I thought, and did not think much more about it … [Read more...] about Memoir Editor? Developmental Editor? What’s in a Name?
To Learn to Write, Read
AS A MEMOIR EDITOR, I read a lot. As a writer, I read a lot. As a thinking human, I read a lot. As a memoir teacher -- yes, you get it -- I read a lot. And I recommend it all the time as a way to … [Read more...] about To Learn to Write, Read
