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 …