WHAT TO ASK YOURSELF when learning to write memoir is not where to go get some writing prompts, where and how you’ll get an agent, or what you’ll wear on the Today Show. It’s not who to get to blurb … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: What to Read To Learn to Write Memoir
Writing Lessons: How to Get Some Distance from Yourself When Writing Memoir
HOW DO YOU DISTANCE YOURSELF when writing memoir? It’s a great question, and an even greater exercise when you sit down to write. When Scott Nadelson proposed it, I snapped it right up, particularly … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Get Some Distance from Yourself When Writing Memoir
Writing Lessons: How to Shape A Book? Begin With One Strong Image
YOU CAN HAVE all the training in the world, and yet you begin each day of writing with a feeling of starting from scratch. Sound familiar? It does to me, approaching the desk each day as I do with a … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Shape A Book? Begin With One Strong Image
Do You Lie or Do You Fictionalize When Writing Memoir?
HE HAD TO LIE to make his father human. Now he tells us. And it’s wow heard ‘round the world, since the writer who is speaking those words is the great Pat Conroy. It’s an issue you’ve faced, as well, … [Read more...] about Do You Lie or Do You Fictionalize When Writing Memoir?
Writing Lessons: How to Execute the Perfect Rewrite
How to execute the perfect rewrite. Ah, I love this topic. Oh wait: Did you think you were going to get it right the first time? Oh dear. Let me break this to you as gently as I know how: You’re not. … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Execute the Perfect Rewrite
How to Write Memoir? It’s Simple. Just Read Roger Rosenblatt
YOUR MEMOIR IS NOT ABOUT YOU. So stay out of it,” and with those eleven words, the great Roger Rosenblatt became my absolute favorite teacher of how to write memoir. It’s not merely that I agree with … [Read more...] about How to Write Memoir? It’s Simple. Just Read Roger Rosenblatt
