IF, LIKE ME, YOU have a place in your house that looks like the photo above, you also have the perfect metaphor for how to start a memoir. From my years as a memoir coach, memoir editor and memoir … [Read more...] about How to Start a Memoir? Like This
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Struggling With Characterization? Think Gifts
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 your story, what they are doing there and what impact … [Read more...] about Struggling With Characterization? Think Gifts
On the Intimacy of the Graphic Memoir, with Teresa Wong
TERESA WONG IS A comics artist and writer. She's the author of the 2019 graphic memoir, Dear Scarlet, The Story of My Postpartum Depression, a finalist for the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book … [Read more...] about On the Intimacy of the Graphic Memoir, with Teresa Wong
The Role of a Daily Writing Practice When Facing Trauma, with Sara Sherbill
SARA SHERBILL IS A WRITER with a focus on mental health, motherhood, and domestic violence. Her new book is There Was Night and There Was Morning, a Memoir of Trauma and Redemption, just out from … [Read more...] about The Role of a Daily Writing Practice When Facing Trauma, with Sara Sherbill
What is a Graphic Memoir? Author Sarah Leavitt Explains it All To Us
SARAH LEAVITT IS A cartoonist and author of the graphic memoir, Tangles, A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me, and the author of the award-winning historical fiction comic, Agnes, … [Read more...] about What is a Graphic Memoir? Author Sarah Leavitt Explains it All To Us
How to Write About Family? Here are Some Rules to Write By
HOW TO WRITE ABOUT family is a classic dilemma of many memoir writers. It’s one of the questions I get asked all the time in my memoir writing classes. And since I have a sister, husband and a child, … [Read more...] about How to Write About Family? Here are Some Rules to Write By
