PARTICIPATORY MEMOIR IS ONE of my favorite subgenres within my favorite type of writing. It’s where the writer goes and does something and writes about it, and while you could easily argue – and be … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Write A Participatory Memoir
Writing Lessons: Writing for An Audience
LOCATING AN AUDIENCE is the ultimate chicken and egger of writing. Do you think about them before you write, as you write, or only after you write? These are questions I get all the time. And they may … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Writing for An Audience
Writing Lessons: How To Write About Your Family When Writing Memoir
HOW TO WRITE ABOUT YOUR FAMILY when writing memoir is one of the great dilemmas facing us all, and when author Sheila Collins proposed the topic for her Writing Lessons post, I knew that you and I … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How To Write About Your Family When Writing Memoir
Writing Lessons: How to Access the Details for Writing Memoir
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT DETAILS when writing memoir is one of the more perplexing issues facing any of us, and we face it every single time we sit down to write. It’s a question I get in every memoir … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How to Access the Details for Writing Memoir
Writing Lessons: How To Be Entertaining When Writing Memoir
WHENEVER I GIVE A TALK about how to write memoir, I always leave the E word for last. In fact, it is literally the last line on the index card I take with me to any talk on memoir, and the only full … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: How To Be Entertaining When Writing Memoir
Writing Lessons: The Most Frequently Asked Writing Questions
THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED WRITING QUESTIONS have to do with process. “How do you do it?” People ask this more than anything else, and when they do, tucked into that inquiry is the hour-to-hour, at the … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: The Most Frequently Asked Writing Questions
