WHO WILL CROSS your path first on New Year’s Day? If it is a redhead, you may need to fasten your seat belt for a bumpy 2012, since at least one beginning-of-the-year tradition holds that the person … [Read more...] about Ah, the Luck of the Redhead
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Memoir Writing Resolutions. Number 5: Use the Calendar
ESCHEW WRITING PROMPTS. Be hospitable. Ask Amy. Use the algorithm. Those are four of my five countdown-to-the-new-year memoir writing resolutions. And number five? Here’s a hint: We start a new one … [Read more...] about Memoir Writing Resolutions. Number 5: Use the Calendar
Advice on Writing? Meet the Best Online
THIS TIME OF YEAR is all about taking stock. And as I look back on the bounty of this year, among its many highlights was meeting Jeff Goins. Have you met him? If not, let me introduce you. He's one … [Read more...] about Advice on Writing? Meet the Best Online
Memoir Writing Resolutions. Number 4: Use The Algorithm
ESCHEW WRITING PROMPTS. Be hospitable. Ask Amy. Those are the three previous new year resolutions I’ve asked you to make when learning to write memoir. And today? What could it possibly be today? … [Read more...] about Memoir Writing Resolutions. Number 4: Use The Algorithm
Memoir Writing Resolutions. Number 3: Ask Amy.
ONE OF MY early jobs at The New York Times was to write the weather “ear” for the front page, as well as the daily weather page, listing the exact highs and lows of the major cities of the world. … [Read more...] about Memoir Writing Resolutions. Number 3: Ask Amy.
News You Can Use
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but it seems to me that these are among the pieces I’ve read this week that might elicit some form of short memoir – an op-ed, or … [Read more...] about News You Can Use
