GETTING PUBLISHED IN AN ANTHOLOGY is something I regularly recommend as a goal to my memoir coaching clients. It’s a joy to see your piece of memoir included in a book, of course, but the … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Getting Published in an Anthology
How To Write From Your True Self
FINDING OUR TRUE SELVES may be one of life's great journeys, but writing from that place is among the hardest assignments I know. How to write from your true self, and not the one you wished you were, … [Read more...] about How To Write From Your True Self
Writing Lessons: How to Begin a Memoir
HOW TO BEGIN A MEMOIR rattles most writers, though perhaps none more than those who had eccentric childhoods. When growing up amid the crazy or quirky stuff of life, competing, vivid images provide a … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Begin a Memoir
Writing Lessons: How to Write Memoir? Listen to Nora Ephron
WRITING ADVICE IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. I know, I am a memoir coach, and I treat each of the problems of my clients as if they are my own. The truth is that we all need someone to whom to pitch our stuff, … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Write Memoir? Listen to Nora Ephron
Writing Lessons: Writing for Ten Minutes
I ALWAYS THINK I've heard it all when it comes to writing productivity and tricking yourself, bargaining oneself, bribing oneself into it. And then I met Marita Golden, author of more than a dozen … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Writing for Ten Minutes
Writing Lessons: Writing About the Dead
WRITING ABOUT THE DEAD presents memoirists with a special set of problems, as well as remarkable freedom, and each writer will wrestle and debate with the ups and downs of the assignment in his or her … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Writing About the Dead
