February 16, 2014
MY HUSBAND WAS CLOSE ENOUGH that I could hear him turning the pages of his newspaper. I was straightening up before leaving on a...
February 11, 2014
PARTICIPATORY MEMOIR IS ONE of my favorite subgenres within my favorite type of writing. It’s where the writer goes and does something and writes...
February 10, 2014
EVERY SO OFTEN a week is so chock full of memoir news that I simply must share some of that bounty. These past few...
February 6, 2014
THERE ARE TWO QUESTIONS a husband should never ask his wife. Both begin with the words, “how many?” And in a little bit of...
February 4, 2014
LOCATING AN AUDIENCE is the ultimate chicken and egger of writing. Do you think about them before you write, as you write, or only...
January 29, 2014
SOMETIMES CREATIVE INSPIRATION tries to knock right on your head. You’ve had this happen: That feeling that you should be paying attention right this...
January 23, 2014
HOW TO WRITE ABOUT YOUR FAMILY when writing memoir is one of the great dilemmas facing us all, and when author Sheila Collins proposed...
January 14, 2014
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT DETAILS when writing memoir is one of the more perplexing issues facing any of us, and we face it...
December 31, 2013
WELCOME TO THE NEW MEMOIR PROJECT BLOG. Let me show you around. You’ve been asking, and I’ve been listening to what you want to...
December 29, 2013
WHENEVER I GIVE A TALK about how to write memoir, I always leave the E word for last. In fact, it is literally the...
December 17, 2013
THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED WRITING QUESTIONS have to do with process. “How do you do it?” People ask this more than anything else, and...
December 10, 2013
YOUR FAMILY HAS ISSUES with what you are writing. Your sister said it never happened that way. Your college roommates don’t remember anything from...
