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...
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...
