How to Write Your Memoir and Still Go Home for the Holidays Date: Friday, December 4, 2009 Times: 4 PM PST | 5 MST | 6 CST | 7 EST Cost: FREE--Sign Up using the form on this page OR Learn More About the Full December Mini-Memoir Teleseminar workshop by clicking here! Everyone takes a collective breath at conferences and in my workshops when the words “memoir” and “family” appear in the same sentence. Hearts beat faster and pulses race as visions of upset family members … [Read more...]
Schedule for the Two Day December Memoir Mini-Workship with FREE PREVIEW! Workshop Presenter: Linda Joy Meyers, Ph.D., MFT, NAMW President Free Preview: How to Write Your Memoir and Still Go Home for the Holidays Date: Friday December 4, 2009 Time: 4:00 PM PST | 5:00 PM MST | 6:00 PM CST | 7:00 PM EST Miss the Preview? You can receive a link to the audio recording of this session by signing up for the Two-Day Workshop Teleseminar! Part One: Working with the Inner Critic Date: Thursday … [Read more...]
Teleseminar Title: Tap Into Your Creativity Guest Speaker: Mary E. Knippel Date: November 13, 2009 Time: 11 am Pacific | 12 noon Mountain | 1 pm Central | 2 pm Eastern Cost: Free for NAMW Members Audio Download is now available exclusively to NAMW Members! If you have any questions, please email us at info@namw.org. And thank you again for being a member! Aren't a member yet? Become a member today for immediate access to this and 17 other recordings of member-only … [Read more...]
It was a pristine weekend in the Napa Valley as we gathered for my 10th annual Harvest Your Wisdom Retreat. The rain follwed by sun made the drive through the valley inspiring–how to describe such beauty? What “sensual details” would a writer use? See, I can’t stop being a writer even while driving! We began with an exercise I use each year–it’s a secret, but I will say this: it always gets everyone’s creativity stirred up and breaks the ice. By the end … [Read more...]
Event Topic: Conversational Q & A with Memoirist Sue William Silverman-LIVE!Date: Thursday November 19, 2009 Time: 4 PM PST | 5 PM MST | 6 PM CST | 7 PM EST Cost: FREE NAMW is excited to offer this conversational LIVE Telephone Call-in Q&A session with Memoirist Sue William Silverman. Check out Sue's written interview with NAMW and then come to the live call with your questions! We hope you can join us on the LIVE call, but if you can't make it, by signing up below you'll receive an … [Read more...]
November Featured Book Review by Linda Joy Myers, NAMW President Lit, the new memoir by Mary Karr, is a book to be inhaled and imbibed, a fitting fate for a story about falling down a bottle and the slippery climb back up to some version of sanity and grace. Read the book all at once to feel its full impact, as you encounter the older, yet not wiser, Mary, moving on from the frightened, brassy, and lost girl in Liar’s Club and Cherry. In Lit, we pick up where Cherry left off, in her … [Read more...]
Linda: Why did you want to write a memoir? What were the images, thoughts, and feelings that began you on your process? Amy: I did not intend to write a memoir at first. My goal was to write fun, light short stories from my childhood, a collection that turned into a longer group of stories. I had so many great memories from my time at Lake Wawasee in Indiana, where I spent most of my childhood summers with all my siblings. My story was also about my mother, a single parent back when that … [Read more...]
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO PARTICIPATE via telephone IN THE FREE NAMW Conversational Q&A with Memoirist Sue Silverman–Live! Interview by Linda Joy Myers National Association of Memoir Writers LINDA: You begin Fearless Confessions with a scene in your therapist’s office. In your book Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, you bring in your therapist as well as in your first book, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You. Many writers shy away … [Read more...]
Teleseminar Title: Tap Into Your Creativity Guest Speaker: Mary E. Knippel Date: November 13, 2009 Time: 11 am Pacific | 12 noon Mountain | 1 pm Central | 2 pm Eastern Cost: Free for NAMW Members Below are the details you will need to connect to the call: Tel: 218-339-4300 Code: 886417# If you have any questions, please email us at info@namw.org. We'll be sure to post an announcement and send an email when the audio recording is available to you--as a benefit of membership … [Read more...]
The Power of Memoir is a groundbreaking book that presents an innovative step-by-step program using memoir writing on the journey of emotional and physical healing. By drawing upon the eight steps outlined in The Power of Memoir, you’ll learn how to choose the significant milestones in your life and weave together your personal story. You’ll discover how writing your truths and shaping your narrative propel you toward a life-changing transformation. The Power of Memoir offers the tools you … [Read more...]
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