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Writing Lessons: How to Write A Personal Story And Make it Public, with Diane Cameron 27 Aug 2013 | 09:03 am
HOW TO MAKE the personal public? Good question, isn’t it? How to write a personal story is enough of a question, of course, but when you want to publish that story, offering it up for others to read a...
The 3 Most Important Rules of Writing Memoir, with The Creative Penn 23 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
JOANNA PENN HELPS writers get to their work. Me, too. And so we got together via Skype the other day – she in London, me in upstate, New York – and talked about how to write memoir. Want to watch and ...
Writing Lessons: How to Reclaim the Fun In Memoir Writing, With J. Maarten Troost 20 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
AH, THE ADVENTURE MEMOIR. Of its writers, few have as distinctive a brand as J. Maarten Troost, whose debut book, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, established his memoir writing as including an eye for det...
Writing Lessons: What to Share When Writing Memoir, with Emma Brockes 13 Aug 2013 | 04:11 pm
I PURCHASED THE fine new memoir, She Left Me the Gun, immediately after reading The New York Times’ review of the book that read, in part, “It’s one of those memoirs that remind you why you liked memo...
Writing Lessons: Telling the Truth When Writing Memoir, with Beth Kephart 6 Aug 2013 | 09:03 am
TELLING THE TRUTH – how to do it, why it’s important, and how to avoid the temptation to stray from it – is perhaps the gnarliest of topics for memoir writers. And so I leave it to Beth Kephart, auth...
Writing Lessons: How to Write A Memoir That You’d Like to Read 30 Jul 2013 | 09:03 am
ONE OF THE BLURBS on the back of Mardi Jo Link’s new book, Bootstrapper, reads “A heroic-comic saga of single motherhood, pure stubbornness, and the loyalty of three young sons. And more than that, an...
The Memoir Project Tops P&W Best Books List for Writers 26 Jul 2013 | 07:16 pm
A HUGE RED LIPSTICK kiss goes out to Poets & Writers magazine’s online site for placing The Memoir Project, my idiosyncratic, irreverent little book on how to write memoir at the top of their new list...
Writing Lessons: When Are You Ready To Write Memoir? 23 Jul 2013 | 09:03 am
Next in this new series called Writing Lessons, our teacher is Liz Picco, taking on the gnarly topic of when to start writing memoir. When are you ready? My advice is to listen to Liz. She knows. I kn...
“Orange is The New Black” Author Talks about Writing Memoir 21 Jul 2013 | 08:08 pm
CHANCES ARE FAIRLY good that you’ve hear of the new Netflix breakout series called Orange is the New Black. And if you haven’t, well, you will. It’s all the rage. Here, finally, is Piper Kerman, autho...
Writing Lessons: Picking Small Topics To Write About 16 Jul 2013 | 09:03 am
Next up in Writing Lessons my guest teacher Ariel Balter, a writer whose recent book, The Maternity Labyrinth, was published by Plain View Press. I had long wanted to feature a book of theirs here. An...
