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,...
August 20, 2013
AH, THE ADVENTURE MEMOIR. Of its writers, few have as distinctive a brand as J. Maarten Troost, whose debut book, The Sex Lives of...
August 13, 2013
I PURCHASED THE fine new memoir, She Left Me the Gun, immediately after reading The New York Times’ review of the book that read,...
August 6, 2013
TELLING THE TRUTH — how to do it, why it’s important, and how to avoid the temptation to stray from it – is perhaps...
