WRITING SOMEONE ELSE'S STORY is always a difficult assignment. How, for instance, do you achieve the voice of the other, and how much of your own can seep in? These were some of the questions put … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Write Someone Else’s Story
Writing Lessons: Can Memoir Be Poetry? Of course
CAN MEMOIR BE POETRY? I get this question all the time. Of course it can. In fact, you can write memoir, poetry, memoir screenplays, plays, lists, essays and book-length pieces. Memoir is a genre that … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Can Memoir Be Poetry? Of course
Writing Lessons: Writing Your Truth
WRITING YOUR TRUTH is one of those phrases that makes for good conversation, a fine search term on Google, and a much-overused topic for workshops. And that’s about where the fun begins and ends since … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Writing Your Truth
Writing Lessons: Some Tips on Writing Good Transitions
WHEN AMY DAWS wrote to me about her recently published memoir, I asked her about her writing challenges in the project, which led us to a discussion about writing good transitions. Ah, transitions. … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Some Tips on Writing Good Transitions
Writing Lessons: Are There Rules for Writing Memoir?
ARE THERE RULES FOR WRITING MEMOIR? For instance, can your story be enlarged by the story of someone else whose life parallels or informs your own? When Maria Mutch proposed this question as a Writing … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Are There Rules for Writing Memoir?
Writing Lessons: How to Cover Time When Writing Memoir
MUST MEMOIR BE CHRONOLOGICAL? In a word, no. How is your story best told? How can the reader best absorb it? These are the questions to begin to ask yourself as you face the writing dilemma of how to … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Cover Time When Writing Memoir
