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...
May 8, 2019
If you’ve read my blog posts, you know I draw a clear line between memoir and autobiography. Here’s a quick recap: Autobiography is best reserved...
May 5, 2019
KNOWING HOW TO WRITE dialogue when writing memoir does not require a great memory, or that you were carrying a notebook beginning when you...
April 28, 2019
As a memoir coach, the number one question I receive goes something like this: “How to decide what to write about?” This gets asked...
April 17, 2019
HOW TO RESEARCH A MEMOIR is one of the concepts that plagues many writers in our favorite genre. After all, it’s your life, right?...
April 14, 2019
HOW TO WRITE MEMOIR as a series of essays? Can a series of essays be a memoir? And, if so, do you string them...
April 10, 2019
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN you discover that you’re writing the wrong memoir? Well, if you are Louise Ross, you make the decision to...
April 7, 2019
Can a memoir be a self-help book? For that matter, can a self-help book be a memoir? These questions were posed to me recently...
