HOW IMPORTANT IS IT to know the ending of your story when you begin? Can you know? Should you? It’s memoir, after all, and your memoir, at that, but how much surprise should you expect? I love this … [Read more...] about Should You Know the Ending Of Your Story When You Begin?
How To Get A Personal Essay Published? Write it Like This
AS A MEMOIR EDITOR and writing coach, I enjoy terrific moments witnessing writers getting what they want from their work. The best of my experience with clients may be when just a wisp of an idea … [Read more...] about How To Get A Personal Essay Published? Write it Like This
The Memoir Project: Use the Objects of Your Affection in Your Work
NOT ALL OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS ARE HUMAN. For me, friendship requires some degree of comfort and support, a whole lot of encouragement, and the inclination on the part of that friend to get you out … [Read more...] about The Memoir Project: Use the Objects of Your Affection in Your Work
The Music of Writing
THE QUESTION WAS SIMPLE: What is the difference between what your piece of memoir is about and the plot of that memoir? The person asking it is a client of my memoir editing services, and while I’ve … [Read more...] about The Music of Writing
How to Write a Memoir? Talk to Pooh Hodges
AS YOU MAY REMEMBER, I talk to my dog. But that does not prevent me from also talking to cats, as I did last week. I think it went quite well, especially considering that the cat is Pooh Hodges, a … [Read more...] about How to Write a Memoir? Talk to Pooh Hodges
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
