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...
June 28, 2018
HOW TO WRITE LESS and say more? Keeping things spare is a hard task, but one you must master in the process of learning...
June 21, 2018
THERE ARE THREE MUST-HAVE COMPONENTS TO ANY PIECE OF MEMOIR, and knowing what they are will instantly allow you to get to work writing...
May 15, 2018
AS A MEMOIR COACH and online memoir teacher, I spend a lot of my time speaking to people about what they read. As a...
May 10, 2018
HOW TO ADD HUMOR to a sad memoir? And why? And where? These are the questions faced by every good writer whose efforts may...
April 19, 2018
WRITING MEMOIR IS NOT the same as writing “my memoirs,” at least not if you are working with this memoir coach and writing teacher...
April 4, 2018
IT’S A QUESTION I GET ALL THE TIME: How to write a memoir that reads like a novel? How to make it a...
March 28, 2018
“IS IT A MEMOIR?” The question was more than a little plaintive, the asker really doubting that what she had submitted met any...
March 14, 2018
IF YOU GOOGLE “how to write about yourself,” you get some really bad answers to your inquiry. And that’s a shame, since Google reveals...
