November 21, 2018
SINCE PUBLICATION OF THE MEMOIR PROJECT, my irreverent little book on how to write memoir, there has not been one day that I have...
November 8, 2018
IS THIS YOU IN THE PHOTO? Is this what you do during the time you set aside to work on your memoir? Are you...
November 1, 2018
How true does memoir have to be? It’s a fine question and one I get a lot as a memoir coach and writing teacher....
October 13, 2018
ACCENTUATE THE COMPLICATED. Yes, I know, the phrase does not have the syncopation of the wildly more popular (as well as musical), “Ac-cen-tu-ate...
September 29, 2018
IT ARRIVES FOUR TIMES EACH YEAR. You think I mean the seasons changing, don’t you? Nope. Not that. Or, more to the point, all...
September 26, 2018
WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. You know the expression. But what does it mean and how do you do it? First and foremost, it requires...
September 22, 2018
IF YOU CONTACT ME about my memoir coaching and writing instruction, and if you tell me the memoir topics you want to braid together...
September 12, 2018
EVERY YEAR OR SO, I read another high-minded piece on how the personal essay is dead. And every year or so, I get to...
September 11, 2018
HOW TO WRITE the personal essay is something I cover in my many online memoir classes. I’ve written many essays, including those I read...
September 6, 2018
AMONG THE MANY questions I field each week as a memoir coach and writing teacher, one of the most common is about whether a...
August 29, 2018
IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT FLUMMOXES every memoir writer, it is how to choose memoir topics. As a memoir coach and writing teacher,...
August 21, 2018
