Counseling and Memoir Writing
Just a note to mention that the more you know yourself and your “psychology”, the better able you will be to write your memoir in a realistic fashion. To understand your instinct (for survival) and how...
View ArticleDeciding If to Edit Memoir
A memoir just came across my desk that has an interesting discussion of gender. The s/he or girl as boy et al. I found it interesting. Really wonderful poetic language. S/he, an author with a book for...
View ArticleElement of fiction for memoir writing: The
Your reader is reading your book because the title draws them in. You provide your reader with a powerful emotional experience and great facts as the story develops. If you’re writing a romance, you...
View ArticleDialogue in Memoir: An Element of Fiction
Most who write memoir have an important story to tell of surviving hardship or letting us go on an amazing adventure with them into new worlds of some kind. We know that the best memoirs come to life...
View ArticleGhost Writing or “as told to…”
In ghost writing or “as told to…” you have a story to tell and it may be difficult for you to write it down. Maybe you trust the story but not your own writing. Maybe you don’t have time but want a...
View ArticleAlison Bechtel’s New Book Are You My Mother?
Just saw Alison Bechtel at San Francisco’s Booksmith Height Street. (What a neighborhood to remind us of the 60’s and the “flower children” we once were.) It was a crowd of all ages and orientations...
View ArticleWriting and the Egrets
Went on a walk in Alameda, CA, about thirty minutes from where I live on the marsh in Emeryville, to see the egrets nesting. Although we have egrets here, I understand there are about twenty places in...
View ArticleJennifer Eagen’s Novels
Eagen won the Pulitzer Price for A Visit from the Goon Squad which is a richly layered character driven book. The “goon squad” is a metaphor for age coming to her characters, some maturing in wisdom...
View ArticleReading and Writing Helps Memoir
Read for Benecia Literary Arts and audience seemed to like the female touch in Salt and Paper: 65 Candles. Cooperative, peaceful, spiritual, living life with meaning of contribution and higher calling....
View ArticleAn Alternative Way to Write a Memoir/Journal Keeping
Salt and Paper: 65 Candles A daily reflection that is immediate and an accumulation of life experience in poetry and prose fragments placing a heartfelt yet realistic light on difficult subjects as...
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