Revision: A Fact of Life—for Writers
Sometimes I feel like I’m always at my computer. Hook the reader in the beginning of a story or novel. Yes, even in memoir. It’s too easy to just close …
A Life in Reflection: Memoir and Revision
Hello, HarperCollins? Are you there? …I guess not. Reflection in Memoir is crucial. Time to rise from my knees, add reflection to my life, …
Exploring the Inner Self in Memoir
Santa puts the tinsel on the tree! I need to show my hard-won epiphanies through self-reflection. I need to present my memoir in ways to allow readers to enter upon …
The Importance of Internal Dialogue in Memoir
Remember, memoir is not autobiography. Memoir recounts an important time in the writer’s life, an important journey, happy or sad, triumphant or not, where a …
Revising in Stages
Hiding among the stacks at the library Now back to my memoir about going to college as a mother of five. I find that if I try to fix all …
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 …