October 22, 2014
A FEW WEEKS AGO I ran a piece about getting help from a sibling while writing memoir. But how about getting professional writing help?...
October 14, 2014
IS GETTING AN MFA in Creative Writing a dream of yours? Did you know that it can more easily be fulfilled at a low-residency...
October 12, 2014
MEMOIR WRITING IS THERAPEUTIC. Or so I’ve been told at least once in every one of the hundreds of memoir writing classes I’ve taught....
October 6, 2014
GETTING HELP WRITING MEMOIR can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. So why not make it simple? Help...
September 25, 2014
WHEN NEW YORK SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND decided to write a memoir, she apparently knew a solid thing or two about the genre. She knew...
September 23, 2014
WRITING SOMEONE ELSE’S STORY is always a difficult assignment. How, for instance, do you achieve the voice of the other, and how much of...
September 17, 2014
CAN MEMOIR BE POETRY? I get this question all the time. Of course it can. In fact, you can write memoir, poetry, memoir screenplays,...
September 5, 2014
NEED A MEMOIR CLASS? I’ve got them right here. Well, actually, I’ve got lots of new online memoir classes posted, so let’s get you...
August 28, 2014
GETTING INSPIRED TO WRITE memoir is easier for some than for others. My job is to make is easy for all, and I try...
August 5, 2014
WRITING YOUR TRUTH is one of those phrases that makes for good conversation, a fine search term on Google, and a much-overused topic for...
July 30, 2014
WHEN MOLLY WIZENBERG SPEAKS, I listen. And why not? An author of a best-selling memoir, a first-rate blogger and the author of a brand...
July 29, 2014
WRITING FROM THE HEART is one of those phrases that people use and use again and, it seems to me, rarely stop to think...
