March 17, 2019
MY FATHER DIED forty-one years ago this week and, as it does each year, it got me thinking about what I miss. But what...
February 27, 2019
I HAVE A NEW response I give when asked how to define memoir and I’ve been testing it on people, hoping it resonates. Now,...
February 17, 2019
THE PERSONAL ESSAY will always be among my favorite forms of discovery. In it, one can have a little look, bounce something in the...
January 2, 2019
WHEN IT COMES TO the work of planning a memoir, the advice you will receive online, in books and in person should always include...
December 2, 2018
LATER THIS WEEK, I’ll be teaching a free class called “How to Start an Excellent Memoir.” I last offered this class in August, and it...
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...
