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Social Media Branding for Memoir Writers: Discover how to attract raving fans | NAMW Teleseminar
February 24 Memoir Teleseminar--Learn about Social Media from Beth Barany 11 AM PST; 12 MST; 1 CST;… [more]
Memoir Writing TeleWorkshops–Winter 2012
Spiritual Autobiography and Healing Memoir Workshops led by Linda Joy Myers, President of National Association… [more]
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Story Crafting for Memoir Writers
Jerry Waxler Teleclass 4 weeks starting April 16, 2012 Mondays, April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 2012 3 PM PST, 4 PM MST, 5 PM CST, 6 PM EST 90 minute workshop Fee: Members - $69 Non-Members - $79 To tell your story in a memoir, you need to become a storyteller. In this four session teleclass, Jerry Waxler will explain the structure of a story, and show you how to weave your life experience into this structure, by finding the dramatic tension, character arc, and beginning, middle, and … [Read More...]
The Four Elements for Your Memoir Writing Journey
Jerry Waxler Teleclass, 4 weeks starting March 19, 2012 Mondays, March 19, March 26, April 2, April 9 3 PM PST, 4 PM MST, 5 PM CST, 6 PM EST 90 minute workshop Fee: Members - $69 Non-Members - $79 To start a memoir, and just as importantly, to keep going, you must master the art of self-direction. This workshop will provide you the four essential elements that every writer needs in order to overcome resistance, and … [Read More...]
Social Media Branding for Memoir Writers: Discover how to attract raving fans | NAMW Teleseminar
February 24 Memoir Teleseminar--Learn about Social Media from Beth Barany 11 AM PST; 12 MST; 1 CST; 2 EST __________________________________________________________ Write a good book, we're told. Yes, absolutely! And now it's time to tell others who don't yet know about you about your book. That's marketing. Yes, even unpublished authors can and need to start marketing for a successful career now. Yes, starting now. But where do we begin? Many authors think all you need to do is get … [Read More...]
Memoir Writing Teleseminar–Jane Vandenburgh | Genre Bending–Will the Memoir Police Arrest You?
Member Teleseminar January 27th 2012, 11 AM PST Memoir and Fiction—Genre Bending—Will the Memoir Police Arrest You? There have been so many debates about “the rules” of memoir—with a strict notion that everything must be accurate and provable, especially since the fracas with James Frey and Oprah—though all has been forgiven by now. Yet the debate continues, with some memoir writers insisting that they ARE being completely accurate—to THEIR memory of what happened and how … [Read More...]
Soaring High and Digging Deep: Tools for Refining Your Memoir, Part 1
Sharon Lippincott 3-Week Short Course February 8– February 29 Fee: Members $59 Non-Members $69 One of the most daunting aspects of writing a memoir is finding and clarifying the thread of the story. You may have already used the tried-and-true technique of drawing a time-line of your life, listing turning points and other key events. Perhaps you’ve mined piles of journals and made long lists of memories. Stacks of vignette stories may wait to be woven into a larger tale. … [Read More...]
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You Can Learn to Use Social Media Effectively and Still Write Your Books
Writers, social media marketing can be overwhelming. I totally understand. I'm a writer, too. But it doesn't have to be that way. What if you could approach it with enjoyment, like the way you have your morning coffee or tea? Morning than that lovely morning ritual, what if you could approach social media like the way you think about hanging out with your favorite people? Because that's what your social media activity can be. It's not about "buy this; buy that," it's about connecting with your … [Read More...]
Memoir Writing Wisdoms by Jerry Waxler | Hallucinations Add Intimate Intensity
Many aspiring memoir writers feel that some of the most interesting aspects of life take place inside their own consciousness. But we always try to tell stories by showing the unfolding scenes. So how do you represent your inner world in a story? One way, often overlooked, is to include visual or auditory experiences. Typically we associate hallucinations with drugs or psychotic episodes, but in fact, such experiences are far more common than you might realize, as I’ve come to see … [Read More...]
Memoir Writing: Playing the Hidden Memory Game
What do writing a memoir and playing hidden object games have in common? After spending more hours playing Everest: Hidden Expedition (Big Fish Games, Inc.) than I care to admit even to myself, I found that link. In this and similar adventure games, you must find hidden objects in order to advance to the next location and eventually make your way to the top of Everest. In this particular game, the objects serve no purpose other than testing your powers of observation. There are far more hidden … [Read More...]
Memoir: A Cluttered Life–Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys | Pesi Dinnerstein
We are happy to welcome Pesi Dinnerstein (a.k.a. Paulette Plonchak) for her blog tour with Women on Writing! She has written selections for the best-selling series Small Miracles, by Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal, and has contributed to several textbooks and an anthology of short stories. Dinnerstein recently retired as a full-time faculty member of the City University of New York, where she taught language skills for close to thirty years. She has been an aspiring author and … [Read More...]
Memoir Writing Techniques: Memoir Brain Dump | Sharon Lippincott
You write and write on your memoir, and everything you think of reminds you of something else that doesn’t fit just here, but you don’t know what to do with it. Monkey mind! you think. Adult ADHD, perhaps. How on earth am I ever going to sort this all out and make sense of it? Don’t you wish you could turn your head upside down over a newspaper — or maybe a clean sheet on the dining room table — and dump it all out, sort of like the picture you see here? Maybe then you could look at … [Read More...]
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