Memoir Writing

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• Tell your story.

  
  sixtyfivewhatnow — Authority: 117
  As we age, we look back at  places, people, skills and accomplishments that belonged to us and gave us identity and purpose. We miss people. We miss work. More than we know. We remember longingly our childhood days,  family members, celebrations, trips to the beach, the mountains, the city. Many things have ...
  2 days ago

• 500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #10

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  Promptly Portland gives us a writing prompt challenge and lets us think about our lives in a new way.
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• It’s Our Anniversary, But You Get the Gift

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  Our 30th anniversary is your opportunity to save big on our most popular 5-DVD set The [Essential] Womens Memoirs Writing Workshop. At $39 (just 30% of the regular price) we hope to put this excellent writing tools into the hands of everyone who has ever dreamed of writing her story. Let us help you share your legacy.
  1 week ago

• Memoir Book Review: A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  In this Memoir Book Rave, Tracy Kauffman Wood highlights Cupcake Browns A Piece of Cake by contrasting the voices the author uses at three time points in her life. What voice are you using?
  1 week ago

• 500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #9

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  Promptly Portland puts us in the mood for Thanksgiving with this memoir writing prompt that focuses us on a real and an imagined scene of gratitude.
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• The Word(s) is Independent Publishers

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  Authors frustrated by the big publishers should take a look at smaller, independent publishers. Heres a list of indie resources. Also a reminder about the Getting Published panel at the Story Circle Network Conference in Austin, Texas, in February 2010. And your invitation to pose questions for consideration by the ...
  2 weeks ago

• List of Universal Themes in Memoir Writing

  
  WOW! Women On Writing Blog — Authority: 129
  What do universal themes have to do with memoir writing? If you are serious about writing a memoir, you need to not only tell your story, but have a story that others can relate to as well. In Annette Fix article on WOW, Memoir Writing: Drawing From Your Life to Create Your Story , she says, "You need to decide ...
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• KitchenScraps – We Eat a Lot of Butter on Thanksgiving by Patricia McEwin Smith

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  KitchenScraps - Patricia McEwin Smith shares both her well-remembered Thanksgiving preparation story and her mothers treasured recipe for Turkey Dressing. She takes you back to the time when butterball turkey meant you had added the butter yourself.
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• Memoir Writing: Part of the Collective Human Consciousness

  
  Observations — Authority: 116
  A discussion has been going on about whose stories we should be allowed to tell. Is it right, fair, just, or despicable for someone to write a memoir and write about other people who have no chance to speak up for themselves or have imput into what you write? Then the discussion, as most online discussions do, ...
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• Book Review: A Little Bit Wicked: Live, Love, and Faith in Stages by Kristin Chenoweth

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  Book Rave: Guest blogger Kat Teraji gives us an insightful look at Kristin Chenoweths memoir and suggests how it can be used to better understand memoir writing and personal biography -- especially if you can maintain a light and humorous take on lifes events.
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• 500 Words (or More): Writing Prompt #8

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  Writing Prompt. Promptly Portland shares a bit of her life story and provides a memoir writing prompt to get you thinking about the types of trails you have followed in your life.
  3 weeks ago

• Memoir: The ‘Barbie’ genre

  
  Writing Companion — Authority: 107
  Reading the online NY Times Sunday Book Review, I was taken with Susan Cheever’s description of why memoirs are so popular. The quote comes from ‘The Morning After‘, Cheever’s review of Mary Karr’s memoir, Lit: A Memoir. Memoir is the Barbie of literary genres. It exaggerates the assets and invites the ...
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• KitchenScraps – Little Stories, Special Memories by Matilda Butler

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  ScrapMoir: Matilda Butler explores how family stories and recipes become part of a shared experience. Be sure to try to her yummy (and healthy) Gingerbread Cake recipe.
  3 weeks ago

• Calling Students, Teachers, Readers, Writers and MORE!

  
  Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff — Authority: 123
  California Writers Club, Mt. Diablo Branch http://mtdiablowriters.org/ Announces a FREE opportunity for students, educators and readers to meet published authors – - – and students, how to win hundreds of dollars by writing! Saturday, November 28, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Pleasant Hill Barnes ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guest Blog and Writing Prompt by Jerramy Fine: It Takes a Tough Skin to Tell a Truthful Story

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  When it comes to memoir writing, Jerramy Fine (author of Someday My Prince Will Come) believes you need to grow a thick skin if youre going to write the truth about yourself.
  4 weeks ago

• Writing Your Memoir by Opening Your Journal - Advice from Susan Wittig Albert

  
  Telling Herstories: The Broad View — Authority: 407
  Opening Salvos #11 by Matilda Butler If you follow Opening Salvos, you know that I interview women memoirists to get their perspective on effective ways to start a memoir. Each discussion has generated insights into multiple approaches. I’ve learned from the conversations and hope you have also. Even if no ...
  4 weeks ago

• Memoir Book Review – A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  Memoir Book Reviewer Judy Watters not only examines A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel but provides us with an insight about what we can learn from the authors personal stories and family history. Watters highlights how the stories of an individual can speak to themes and situations that we all understand. As memoir ...
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• Guest Blog and Writing Prompt by Susan Wittig Albert Is Guaranteed to Get you Journaling

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  Author, memoirist, educator and founder of Story Circle Network shares her perspective on memoir and the power of journaling--both as a gift to oneself and an invaluable tool to the memoir writer.
  4 weeks ago

• Listography Q & A

  
  Summit Musings — Authority: 110
  This weeks Fun Monday assignment is all about questions and answers. Our host, the lovely butterfly Mariposa gives us the opportunity to reveal a bit more about ourselves to our friends in the blogosphere , something we havent shared before. Then in the second part of the assignment, she asks us to come ...
  5 weeks ago

• Witch Hazel Made Me Eat My Vegetables

  
  Women's Memoirs — Authority: 419
  Its October and it seems like almost yesterday that I was a child full of Halloween wonder. My mother made it such a special holiday--pumpkin pie, spooky music, a house full of decorations and family fun.
  5 weeks ago

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