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What is a Graphic Memoir? Author Sarah Leavitt Explains it All To Us

  SARAH LEAVITT IS A cartoonist and author of the graphic memoir, Tangles, A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me, and the author of the award-winning historical fiction comic, Agnes, … [Read more...] about What is a Graphic Memoir? Author Sarah Leavitt Explains it All To Us

How to Write About Family? Here are Some Rules to Write By

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 in my memoir writing classes. And since I have a sister, husband and a child, … [Read more...] about How to Write About Family? Here are Some Rules to Write By

A Quick Lesson to Improve Your Memoir Writing Skills

I’VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT attraction – specifically, what attracts what and why, and how that phenomenon affects our memoir writing skills. I bet you are tilting your head right now, just the … [Read more...] about A Quick Lesson to Improve Your Memoir Writing Skills

How to Write a Multiple-Themed Memoir, with Brigit Binns

Today, my guest is Brigit Binns, a prolific author of cookbooks. She has more than 100,000 copies in print, including 11 titles she's authored for Williams-Sonoma. She has also co-authored cookbooks, … [Read more...] about How to Write a Multiple-Themed Memoir, with Brigit Binns

How to Write Characters’ Interior Lives, with Caro de Robertis

CARO DE ROBERTIS IS an Uruguayan American author and full-tenured professor in the creative writing department at San Francisco State University. Their pronouns are they/theirs. They are the author of … [Read more...] about How to Write Characters’ Interior Lives, with Caro de Robertis

How to Structure a Fine book, With Author Juli Min

JULI MIN IS THE editor-in-chief and fiction editor of the Shanghai Literary Review. Currently, a resident of Shanghai, she was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in New Jersey and has just published her … [Read more...] about How to Structure a Fine book, With Author Juli Min

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