January 14, 2026
RECENTLY, WHILE A FRIEND was recounting placing her estranged father in hospice, she mentioned the wind on that day, dropped in the curious and...
January 11, 2026
WRITING WHAT YOU KNOW does not mean you don’t check your facts. Fact-checking in memoir is essential. Accuracy counts. Memoir demands fact-checking since...
December 28, 2025
HOW TO WRITE characterization in memoir? It’s an essential skill, and one you must master. Characterization informs us on who the people are in...
December 24, 2025
BURGER OR BURRITO? Which are you? Maybe you didn’t know that all people can be divided along these culinary categories. They can, and since...
December 16, 2025
MARGARET WAS EEYORE when we were young, seeing the impossible in everything. My older sister, she has grown up to be Kanga, her youthful...
December 3, 2025
WHEN MY HUSBAND asked me to marry him, now so many years ago, he did not offer me a diamond ring. Nor did he...
November 23, 2025
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE something so wonderful happens that all you can do is laugh out loud with joy. My favorite of these...
November 17, 2025
READY, SET, WRITE! That’s how most people think writing memoir will go, whether it be in blog form, a series of essays, or a...
November 15, 2025
HERE AT THE MEMOIR PROJECT, we work hard to help you locate stories within your own life, identify the universal in your deeply personal...
November 3, 2025
LEARNING HOW TO WRITE MEMOIR begins with knowing what to read. And specifically, this means reading really well, since reading bad memoir won’t help...
August 27, 2025
EVERY SINGLE DAY SOMEONE tells a writer to “show, don’t tell,” and every single day that writer wonders what that means. Many writers go...
August 25, 2025
A RECENT STUDY OF Baby Boomers revealed that the single thing they most want to do in retirement is write a book. The single...
