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...
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...
