February 2, 2012
OF THE WRETCHED MISTAKES I made when first teaching, perhaps my favorite occurred over what is known as the cosmic graph. And because there...
February 1, 2012
YOUR BLOG AWAITS. You write about your life. In other words, you write what you know. But right now you feel like you don’t...
January 31, 2012
ALL MEMOIR NEEDS AN ARGUMENT. Want to argue about it? Just kidding, of course, though accepting that even all memoir needs an argument from...
January 30, 2012
YOUR NEWS PEG is where you hang your hat, and when it comes to writing short memoir, answering the reader’s subconscious question of why...
January 29, 2012
LISTS ARE THE NEW BACON. Or the new black. Or the new fill-in-the-blank however you like. I write them, I read them, I encourage...
January 28, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
January 26, 2012
GALILEO IN WALMART. Picturing the master in the Big Box store was something I asked of both classes I taught last week, and when...
January 25, 2012
WHEN WRITING MEMOIR, who are you writing for? What is your point of view and who is the focus of your piece of memoir?...
January 23, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
January 22, 2012
WHILE I HAVE no required reading list for writers in my classes, I always ask what people are reading. And, at some point, I’ll...
January 21, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
January 20, 2012
HOW TO START a memoir? It’s a question I get all the time when teaching how to write memoir. Where to begin a piece?...
