There are those people who know how to write about home, and then there is William Kennedy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Genius grant, and pretty much everything but the Heisman trophy, … [Read more...] about How To Write About Home, With William Kennedy
How Much Detail Should Writers Use?
How much detail should writers use? It’s a question I deal with every single day in my work as a memoir coach, and one I strive to answer with vivid examples each time it comes up. After all, I cannot … [Read more...] about How Much Detail Should Writers Use?
How and When to Get Writing Feedback
AMONG THE MANY ROLES I enjoy in this writing life, there is one I only recently began to understand. Actually, I never knew I had this role until on a call with a writer. She was looking for writing … [Read more...] about How and When to Get Writing Feedback
How to Know What Piece of Memoir to Write First
If you’ve read my blog posts, you know I draw a clear line between memoir and autobiography. Here’s a quick recap: Autobiography is best reserved for the famous. It covers the entirety of a person’s … [Read more...] about How to Know What Piece of Memoir to Write First
How to Decide What to Write About
As a memoir coach, the number one question I receive goes something like this: “How to decide what to write about?” This gets asked right after I remind people that unlike autobiography, memoir is not … [Read more...] about How to Decide What to Write About
How To Research A Memoir
HOW TO RESEARCH A MEMOIR is one of the concepts that plagues many writers in our favorite genre. After all, it's your life, right? Why should you have to go and look up anything? This is (il)logic I … [Read more...] about How To Research A Memoir