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...
September 24, 2013
CAN YOU – MAY YOU – FICTIONALIZE all or parts of your memoir writing? Such a good question, and one I turn over this...
September 17, 2013
HOW TO WRITE MEMOIR when your story involves a subculture that few people have ever witnessed? When Shirley Showalter proposed that to me as...
September 13, 2013
DEFENDING THE HUMANITIES is difficult. Not because they are not worthy of every single line of defense we can bring to the job –...
September 11, 2013
WHENEVER MY ONLINE MEMOIR CLASSES are about to start up again after a break, I get very happy. I love the anticipation, knowing I’ll...
September 9, 2013
Having always wanted to feature a graphic memoir here on Writing Lessons, I knew I had the right writer when I read a review...
September 3, 2013
JOANNA PENN IS A TIRELESS ADVOCATE for writers. I like to think that I am, as well. Together we recently settled in for a...
September 3, 2013
OUR NEXT WRITER will take on the slippery topic of bridging the gap from the here to the then – that distance of writing...
August 27, 2013
HOW TO MAKE the personal public? Good question, isn’t it? How to write a personal story is enough of a question, of course, but...
August 23, 2013
JOANNA PENN HELPS writers get to their work. Me, too. And so we got together via Skype the other day – she in London,...
