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...
December 6, 2013
LIBRARY JOURNAL HAS just listed the best memoirs of 2013. I say hurrah and yippee, since not only do I love any good promo...
December 3, 2013
WHAT TO ASK YOURSELF when learning to write memoir is not where to go get some writing prompts, where and how you’ll get an...
November 25, 2013
HOW DO YOU DISTANCE YOURSELF when writing memoir? It’s a great question, and an even greater exercise when you sit down to write. When...
November 22, 2013
YOU KNOW THIS PICTURE. You’ve seen it a lot this week, and countless times before that and if, like me, you saw this image...
November 19, 2013
YOU CAN HAVE all the training in the world, and yet you begin each day of writing with a feeling of starting from scratch....
November 17, 2013
HE HAD TO LIE to make his father human. Now he tells us. And it’s wow heard ‘round the world, since the writer who...
November 12, 2013
How to execute the perfect rewrite. Ah, I love this topic. Oh wait: Did you think you were going to get it right the...
November 11, 2013
YOUR MEMOIR IS NOT ABOUT YOU. So stay out of it,” and with those eleven words, the great Roger Rosenblatt became my absolute favorite...
