September 28, 2020
APPARENTLY, I HAVE BECOME ADEPT at stepping across the threshold from one world to the next. To be a bit more clear: I...
September 18, 2020
I CONSIDER TALKING TO MYSELF one of the great luxuries of my life. First off, I get to actually finish the sentence before someone...
August 9, 2020
WHAT IS A CULINARY travel memoir? Can a memoir writer write such a hybrid piece, and are there any good examples of this?...
June 24, 2020
FOR MY DOG, IT is the sight of the cooler that gets him going. For some of you, it might be the sound of...
June 3, 2020
WHAT TO INCLUDE IN your memoir? What gets left in? What needs to be edited out? How in the world is a...
May 28, 2020
WRITING ABOUT FAMILY is by far one of the most vexing tasks facing every memoir writer. And when authors Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic and...
May 7, 2020
AS WRITERS, WE GET called on to do all manners of wild things. Some years ago, this included giving the cum laude gradation speed...
May 3, 2020
THERE ARE MANY over-used and under-explained phrases in writing instruction. We tell writers to “show, not tell.” We tell them to “write what you...
April 15, 2020
I WENT TO WRITE SOMETHING the other day and discovered I was – uh-oh! – rusty. Really rusty. I write all the time, and...
April 4, 2020
I TEACH ONLINE MEMOIR CLASSES and work as a memoir coach and memoir editor, and in those roles I get a lot of requests...
March 20, 2020
SOME TIME AGO, I learned from an expert the exquisite skill of how to use lists to write memoir. It happened one night in...
March 18, 2020
You are driving behind a car and notice the left-hand turning signal goes on. As a result, you expect that car in front of...
