February 19, 2020
ONE OF MY FAVORITE questions to get when working with online memoir classes or memoir coaching clients is how to choose scenes when writing...
February 9, 2020
NO MORE WRITING EXERCISES. I mean it. If you are going to learn to write memoir, you need to learn to write with intent....
January 26, 2020
One of my favorite topics to discuss and teach is how to write memoir using lists. Whenever I suggest a list to one of...
January 12, 2020
PEOPLE ARE ALL ABOUT telling you who you are. Well, kind of. These days, revelatory or confessional conversation is all the rage, of course,...
November 24, 2019
GET A LOT OF questions about how to write about loved ones, and almost always my answer includes something about inheritances, the weirder the...
September 8, 2019
Clutter is not what is holding you back as a writer. Neither is it your mother, your father/the nuns/the second-grade teacher who told you...
September 6, 2019
I HAD THE PEANUT BUTTER. The large-mouth jar of chunky. I had the spoon. The soup spoon, to be specific, the logic being the...
August 11, 2019
THERE I WAS, TAKING off the summer. Or so I thought. I made the plans, I put up the notices, I told my clients...
August 4, 2019
I SPEND A LOT of time speaking to writers about how to use backstory when writing memoir. How much of the background needs to...
June 16, 2019
How much detail should writers use? It’s a question I deal with every single day in my work as a memoir coach, and one...
June 9, 2019
AMONG THE MANY ROLES I enjoy in this writing life, there is one I only recently began to understand. Actually, I never knew I...
May 22, 2019
KNOWING HOW TO WRITE ABOUT FAMILY is an acquired skill. I would venture to guess that no one does it right the first time...
