Make Memoirs Unique
Hush, the writer is thinking. What makes my memoir different? A very good question. If you’ve been reading memoirs, you’ll notice that each experience is unique, whether the memoir …
What to Include in Memoir
Hard-working mother in college Memoir isn’t a life story. That is autobiography. Memoir is one particular period in a person’s life, one instance or one experience in which the memoirist …
Roving Through Revisions
When it’s going well… Although Hemingway and Anne LaMott may call the first draft by a different name, I feel my synonym works just as well. I’m plodding through the …
What to Write in Those Confounded Chapters
What to say; what to say… What’s your method for filling your chapters with words? I begin with my outline topics for each chapter. I do a lot of staring …
Writing is not a Cookie-Cutter Science
Writing is not a cookie cutter deal Take all suggestions to your writing as just that—suggestions. It is, after all, your writing, not someone else’s. This is why it is …
The Need for Objective Readers: Writing Partners
Writers helping Writers Many times, I don’t see what’s missing from my scenes or story. In memoir, the writer has lived through these adventures, and in most cases, can still …
Details and Description in Memoir
My inspiration in many ways When writing memoir, the author needs to remember that while she can see the cast of characters and the settings in a scene, the …
Creating the Outline for Memoir
Supporting book structure with scaffolding The opinion is divided about whether or not to create an outline for a creative writing project. Which side are you on and why? The mentors …
The Storyteller
Why am I a writer? That’s a good question. I have always been a storyteller. Perhaps I get it from my father. He would tell us stories by candlelight every …