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Memoir How-To

How to Be a Food Writer – and More – with David Leite

How to Develop Your Writing Brand, with Jane Friedman

How to Find Your Writing Voice

Best Practices for Writing, With David Leite and Marion Roach Smith

How to Write About Grief, With Jill Smolowe

What is Holding You Back as a Writer? Clue: Its Not Clutter

How to Get Started Writing A Book, With Asha Dornfest

Are Those Memoir Writing Metaphors Everywhere, Or Am I Just Plain Nuts?

How to Use Backstory When Writing Memoir

How to Tell the Truth While Writing Memoir, With Boris Fishman

How Much Detail Should Writers Use?

How and When to Get Writing Feedback

How To Write About Family

How to Know What Piece of Memoir to Write First

How to Write Dialogue in Memoir: Don’t Linger

How to Decide What to Write About

How To Research A Memoir

How to Write A Memoir in Essays

Which Book Were You Meant to Write?

Can a Memoir Be a Self-Help Book? Can a Self-Help Book Be a Memoir?

How To Characterize Someone in a Personal Essay

What is a Memoir? Let’s Define It and Get You Working.

How To Write a Personal Essay? Go Small to Reveal Life’s Large Themes

One Big Tip on Planning A Memoir