SHE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE in high school who said things like, “Well, I’m sure someone will dance with you if you wear that dress.” She ended the quote with the kind of broad smile that looked like … [Read more...] about How to Write About Your Relatives – Both Dead & Alive
My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 4/22/16
DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? I mean, have you noticed the growing popularity of writing about the makings of memoir, its nuts and bolts, levers and gimcracks? It’s all very meta or something, but I try to … [Read more...] about My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 4/22/16
Writing Lessons: Writing About the Dead
WRITING ABOUT THE DEAD presents memoirists with a special set of problems, as well as remarkable freedom, and each writer will wrestle and debate with the ups and downs of the assignment in his or her … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Writing About the Dead
Five Signs That You’re Not Writing
THE ESPRESSO MACHINE IS CLEAN. This is never a good sign. In my house, a much better sign that things are as they should be is if that ancient steam machine is just this side of a health code … [Read more...] about Five Signs That You’re Not Writing
Writing Lessons: MFA or Writing Coach?
WE'VE ALL FACED THIS DILEMMA: Who to trust with our writing future? Should we go into an MFA program – residential or distance-based? – trust that we already know all we can to write good memoir, hire … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: MFA or Writing Coach?
How To Be A Better Memoir Writer? See a Therapist (In Class)
IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE: Me and a room full of psychoanalysts, more than one hundred of them, in fact, and I was telling them about my writing life, illustrating for them my belief in the power of … [Read more...] about How To Be A Better Memoir Writer? See a Therapist (In Class)
