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...
August 3, 2025
RECIPES ARE POWERFUL storytellers. Never was this point driven home to me like when I first encountered the Hart Family Round Robin Newsletter, a...
July 20, 2025
HOW TO WRITE THE PERSONAL ESSAY? In my role as a memoir coach and teacher, it’s a question I get all the time. Here...
July 17, 2025
THE SUMMER WRITING SLUMP. This is a tough time for writers–that time of year when the most seductive set of temptations to not write...
July 9, 2025
I TEACH A LOT OF MEMOIR classes, and while every writer is different, many of the problems are the same. And while I cannot...
July 2, 2025
AS A MEMOIR COACH and online writing teacher, I spend a lot of time listening to others’ writing issues. I know how memoir writers...
May 6, 2025
I TELL STORIES. That would be my sister’s version of our tale, the suggestion being that she writes the truth. For me, even that...
April 28, 2025
SOMETIMES I CAN BE SUBTLE. And while no particular incident of that comes to mind right now, I maintain that I can be. Sometimes....
March 12, 2025
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...
March 1, 2025
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?...
