February 21, 2022
HOW DO YOU CHOOSE WHAT TO WRITE? Some topics merely interest us, while others fascinate us. But is our interest enough to make those...
January 27, 2022
ALMOST EVERY DAY I get a question from a writer about how to describe something or someone. I work as a writing coach and...
September 5, 2021
KNOWING HOW TO WRITE THE PERFECT first sentence to a memoir is not a magical process. It is not something that you can force,...
June 6, 2021
COVID HAS US ALL STREAMING, WATCHING and re-watching our favorite shows. In that rewatching you have a marvelous opportunity to learn huge lessons about...
April 28, 2021
THERE IS AN OLD expression in journalism that states, “go with what you’ve got.” It’s a dictum I live by. It does not mean...
April 11, 2021
WE RECENTLY HAD A FABULOUS time hosting a 5-week Memoir Project bookclub. It included live online Q&A in which you asked me questions about...
April 3, 2021
BUILDING YOUR AUTHOR PLATFORM is a topic for which you are going to need some really good advice. No one is born knowing how...
March 28, 2021
YOU WANT TO TELL YOUR TALE. You want to write memoir and you think that the key is to get someone else to know...
March 18, 2021
EVERY WRITER HAS WRITING OBSTACLES. How to combat your writing obstacles is a skill every one of you must have on you, know how...
February 28, 2021
WITH THIS BLOG POST, we continue the Writing Lessons series on The Memoir Project, in which well-published writers write from their area of expertise...
January 20, 2021
IS MEMOIR ONE BIG BUMMER GENRE? I mean, is memoir always about trauma? Does there have to be a terrible experience in every tale...
October 27, 2020
WHEN WE GET A LINE of music lyrics stuck in our heads, it’s called an ear worm. But what do we call it when...
