November 5, 2013
HOW VULNERABLE TO BE when writing memoir? Uh oh. Did you just scurry under the couch or pull your sweater over your head? Oh...
October 29, 2013
THE ROLE OF MEMORY in writing is simply one of the most compelling topics there is for memoirists. And then there is the topic...
October 29, 2013
HOW TO MANAGE WRITING TIME is one of the very best questions a writer can be asked. And so I was thrilled to discuss...
October 22, 2013
I GENUINELY BELIEVE that much like in life, success is writing depends on which details you choose to emphasize. It’s a hard-won illumination, and...
October 17, 2013
WRITING SOMEONE ELSE’S STORY might, at first, appear to be a straightforward assignment. Unless, of course, that other person is your mother. Then, just...
October 15, 2013
JUST WHAT IS MEMOIR? Is it one big book that begins with your great-great-grandfather, and ends with what you had for lunch today, or...
October 11, 2013
HOW TO GET STARTED WRITING A BOOK does not always involve cleaning your refrigerator, shopping online, or an urgent organization of your shoes. That’s...
October 9, 2013
IT IS A PARTICULAR JOY when a former student of mine publishes a book. Such is the case with this week’s writer, AnnE O’Neill,...
October 3, 2013
THINKING OF YOURSELF as the curator of your own life has many advantages, particularly if you want to write memoir. When author Karen Dietrich...
October 2, 2013
IF THE WRITER JULIA CAMERON had said something other than she did about what she has branded “morning pages,” I might feel better about...
October 1, 2013
HOW TO TELL a difficult tale? It’s a topic Bette Lynch Husted, our new guest blogger, eagerly took on when she suggested writing about...
September 30, 2013
WHENEVER PEOPLE ASK me about writing, there is always a process question included, as in, “How do you actually do it?” By this, we’re...
