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
August 15, 2018
AMONG THE TOP INQUIRIES that appear in my inbox each week are requests for information on how to write about someone else. I also...
August 12, 2018
PEOPLE ALWAYS ASK ME for my best writing advice. They want it and they want it fast. I guess everyone is in a hurry,...
August 8, 2018
OF THE (MANY) THINGS that make me laugh out loud, my favorite is when Amazon offers me a suggestion of a book I might...
