KNOWING HOW TO WRITE THE PERFECT first sentence to a memoir is not a magical process. It is not something that you can force, nor is it the least bit mystical. What it is, though, is work -- but … [Read more...] about How to Write the Perfect First Sentence for a Memoir
On Building Your Author Platform, with Kevin Barhydt
BUILDING YOUR AUTHOR PLATFORM is a topic for which you are going to need some really good advice. No one is born knowing how to do this, and no matter what other authors and their online personas you … [Read more...] about On Building Your Author Platform, with Kevin Barhydt
How to Identify & Combat Your Writing Obstacles, With Bonnie Wright
EVERY WRITER HAS WRITING OBSTACLES. How to combat your writing obstacles is a skill every one of you must have on you, know how to use and use as needed. But first you must identify those writing … [Read more...] about How to Identify & Combat Your Writing Obstacles, With Bonnie Wright
Writing Lessons: How to Navigate Pushback from Your Antagonist(s)
WITH THIS BLOG POST, we continue the Writing Lessons series on The Memoir Project, in which well-published writers write from their area of expertise on one topic of memoir writing. In this post, … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Navigate Pushback from Your Antagonist(s)
Writing Lessons: What is a Culinary Travel Memoir, with Carole Bumpus
WHAT IS A CULINARY travel memoir? Can a memoir writer write such a hybrid piece, and are there any good examples of this? Before COVID, I got these questions all the time from writers … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: What is a Culinary Travel Memoir, with Carole Bumpus
Writing Lessons: What to Include in Your Memoir
WHAT TO INCLUDE IN your memoir? What gets left in? What needs to be edited out? How in the world is a writer to decide? When newly-published author, Sharon Dukett, approached … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: What to Include in Your Memoir
