December 24, 2024
HOW TO WRITE characterization in memoir? It’s an essential skill, and one you must master. Characterization informs us on who the people are in...
November 9, 2024
HOW TO WRITE ABOUT family is a classic dilemma of many memoir writers. It’s one of the questions I get asked all the time...
November 2, 2024
I’VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT attraction – specifically, what attracts what and why, and how that phenomenon affects our memoir writing skills. I...
October 8, 2023
AS SOMEONE WHO TEACHES online memoir classes, I take a lot of questions on the fly. And, I admit, after all these years, I...
August 10, 2023
As a memoir coach, memoir teacher and memoir editor, I spend a great amount of time talking people out of writing mere genealogy. When...
February 17, 2023
MY MOTHER POSSESSED dozens of memorable sayings, all of which got stitched into me in more or less productive ways. When I was young...
January 28, 2023
ONCE YOU’VE WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED hundreds of thousands of words, chances are good that you’ll sometimes experience the great delight of someone quoting you...
January 6, 2023
Recently, while a friend was recounting placing her estranged father in hospice, she mentioned the wind on that day, dropped in the curious and...
January 5, 2023
YOU SHOULD WRITE AN OP-ED. Yes, you. Why? Simply put, learning to write op-eds will transform your writing. While the ways in which it...
October 29, 2022
A student in my Master Class recently asked if I had any bad writing habits. I just snorted in reply. Of course...
June 19, 2022
SOMETIMES WRITERS GET INVITED to do things they have only dreamed about. I once dreamed about writing and publishing songs, and spent my teens...
March 12, 2022
DOES YOUR MEMOIR ASK A QUESTION, or do you need to create one? Although I’ve been teaching memoir for more than a quarter-century, as...
