Looking Out Over This Week's Memoir News (The fourth week of March, 2016) IN MY VIEW, this week's best memoir writing is a sublime mix of diverse voices. See if you agree. One funny man has just … [Read more...] about My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 3/25/16
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Writing Lessons: Writing About the Dead
WRITING ABOUT THE DEAD presents memoirists with a special set of problems, as well as remarkable freedom, and each writer will wrestle and debate with the ups and downs of the assignment in his or her … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: Writing About the Dead
My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 3/18/16
Looking Out Over This Week's Memoir News (The third week of March, 2016) There is a lot of be happy about this week in the world of memoir. Lee Smith has a new book Bustle has a new … [Read more...] about My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 3/18/16
Five Signs That You’re Not Writing
THE ESPRESSO MACHINE IS CLEAN. This is never a good sign. In my house, a much better sign that things are as they should be is if that ancient steam machine is just this side of a health code … [Read more...] about Five Signs That You’re Not Writing
Writing Lessons: MFA or Writing Coach?
WE'VE ALL FACED THIS DILEMMA: Who to trust with our writing future? Should we go into an MFA program – residential or distance-based? – trust that we already know all we can to write good memoir, hire … [Read more...] about Writing Lessons: MFA or Writing Coach?
How To Be A Better Memoir Writer? See a Therapist (In Class)
IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE: Me and a room full of psychoanalysts, more than one hundred of them, in fact, and I was telling them about my writing life, illustrating for them my belief in the power of … [Read more...] about How To Be A Better Memoir Writer? See a Therapist (In Class)
