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...
August 4, 2018
SOMETIMES I FORGET to explain things. Like years ago, when a friend was visiting me from Switzerland. I did the all-America thing and took...
August 1, 2018
I SPEND A LOT OF TIME talking about the tools of writing. As a full time writer, author, memoir coach, memoir editor and teacher...
July 25, 2018
The greatest challenge to your writing career is not what you think. It’s not your job, kids, or your marriage; it’s also not your...
July 5, 2018
WHO IS THE NARRATOR OF YOUR MEMOIR? It’s a question I write in the margin of every manuscript I edit, a question I ask...
