USE THE CALENDAR. It's the best way I know to choose memoir topics and get memoir ideas. This is advice I give all the time in my online memoir classes, and I'm reminded of that advice every time a … [Read more...] about Need a Memoir Topic? Use the Calendar
The Memoir Project Blog
How to Choose an Opening Scene for a Memoir, with Brooke Randel
Today, my guest is Brooke Randall, whose new book, Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, is just out from Tortoise Books. Brooke is a writer, editor, and associate creative … [Read more...] about How to Choose an Opening Scene for a Memoir, with Brooke Randel
How to Choose a Memoir Topic
HOW TO CHOOSE a memoir topic? It's one of the toughest aspects of writing memoir. What to write about? Where to get memoir ideas? As a memoir coach and writing teacher, I have lots of examples in how … [Read more...] about How to Choose a Memoir Topic
How to Use Family Letters to Write Memoir, with author Julie Kabat
Today, my guest is artist, teacher, composer, performer, singer, storyteller, and now author, Julie Kabat, whose first book is Love Letter from Pig, My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer, just out from … [Read more...] about How to Use Family Letters to Write Memoir, with author Julie Kabat
There is No Such Thing as Writer’s Block
WRITER’S BLOCK? NONSENSE. There is no such thing as writer’s block. Nope. Despite the fact that writing books are chock full of time-wasting exercises with all manners and ways to get you to emerge … [Read more...] about There is No Such Thing as Writer’s Block
How to Ask and Answer a Big Life Question in Memoir
AMY WILSON IS THE author of the memoir, When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, The Warrior, The Dinosaur Chicken Nugget Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be, as well as the co-host of the … [Read more...] about How to Ask and Answer a Big Life Question in Memoir
