CREATIVE INSPIRATION CAN COME from anywhere. It’s all around you, though most of us are too busy worrying, planning, texting, phoning or talking to notice. The human propensity for missing inspiration … [Read more...] about Creative Inspiration? Look Around
The Memoir Project Blog
Writing Memoir: When Imaginary Friends Come to Dinner
PASSOVER IS HERE, and we look forward to our yearly Seder, blended as we will be into another family’s gracious celebration. It’s easier these days since there are only three of us to accommodate at … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir: When Imaginary Friends Come to Dinner
Writing Memoir? Don’t Try This At Home
MY FATHER USED TO SAY that you should write everything like a letter home. In a letter home you rarely tell those people who raised you how very great you are, or right you are, or unique. You tend to … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir? Don’t Try This At Home
Writing Memoir. News You Can Use: April 2, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might elicit some form of short memoir – an op-ed, or personal essay – from … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir. News You Can Use: April 2, 2012
Recommended Reading: “Why Be Happy When You Can be Normal?”
I DON’T USUALLY require the students in my memoir class read anything in particular, including my own book on how to write memoir. But every once in a while something is published that is so to the … [Read more...] about Recommended Reading: “Why Be Happy When You Can be Normal?”
Writing Memoir: Class Notes. March 23, 2012
THIS WEEK’S CLASS was the first in a new six-week series. I particularly love these first nights, since it brings the challenge back to me to explain what memoir is, what it is not, and what is … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir: Class Notes. March 23, 2012
