March 12, 2015
THE BEST MEMOIR WRITING knows its limits. It does not take on too much. It does not take on too little. It takes on...
March 9, 2015
APPARENTLY I AM A DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR for memoir. I had not know that until recently when four separate email inquiries came in using that...
March 4, 2015
THAT HE WAS BOOED AND SHUNNED; that people brought watermelons to the game; that he fought on. Those are the details I heard on...
March 2, 2015
IS WRITING A MEMOIR the new prelude to running for national office? It seems so, doesn’t it? Or is it that running for national...
February 27, 2015
AS A MEMOIR EDITOR, I read a lot. As a writer, I read a lot. As a thinking human, I read a lot. As...
February 25, 2015
WHEN PEOPLE ASK why I love memoir, I frequently remind them that were it not for my favorite genre, we would not have the...
January 16, 2015
WRITING ABOUT THE TOUGHEST stuff of life will include the kind of struggle you need to prepare for. Simple as that. You will change...
November 30, 2014
ARE THERE SOME PHRASES that should never appear in print? Maybe, maybe not. After all, I’m all for place savers — cliches, song lyrics,...
November 13, 2014
“IT’S FUNNY.” What would happen if we eliminated that phrase from our language – our dialogue, our thinking and, most important of all, our...
November 4, 2014
WRITING MEMOIR IN PRESENT TENSE suits grief in ways that the past tense simply cannot provide. Think about it for a moment and you...
October 31, 2014
I’VE TRIED MEDITATION, dosing myself with the prescription to apply it at the same time each day. And when I do, the silent, tunneling...
October 29, 2014
AUTUMN IS WHEN THE SERIOUS books are published, and as much as I love a good summer read, I look forward to fall with...
