June Roundtable Discussion--Free for all With Kate Farrell, editor of Wisdom Has a Voice, and guests June 9, 2012 4 PM PDT 5 PM MDT 6 PM CDT 7 PM EDT Creating an anthology of memoirs is a wonderful way to gather voices and diverse themes—and you as the editor can choose your themes, authors, and the voices you want to showcase. Many writers don’t yet have a full memoir completed, but they have amazing stories—and perhaps you do too. Creating an anthology—why, how, and … [Read more...]
Welcome to spring! The roses are blooming all over! Fragrant scenes, birdsong, and blossoms, all shades of green, wafting soft breezes, happy earthworms—spring has sprung! Our minds melt a bit with all this fecundity going on, new life, birth, the fruits of the harvest to come are set. All this growth and new life stimulates our creativity, reminding us to dig into the treasures of our hearts and souls as we write our memoir. First, I want to say that it was indeed a festival of … [Read more...]
Member Teleseminar with Amber Lea Starfire May 18, 2012 11 AM PDT; 12 PM MDT; 1 PM CDT; 2 PM EDT We write before knowing what to say and how to say it, and in order to find out, if possible. ~ Jean-Francois Lyotard ~ Journaling can support your memoir writing in so many ways. We are happy to present our guest Amber Lea Starfire for our May 18 National Association of Memoir Writers Teleseminar for a short course in giving your writing more depth and power using journaling … [Read more...]
At NAMW this month, we are so happy to welcome Naomi Rose, author of MotherWealth: The Feminine Path to Money. Naomi is a coach, author, publisher, and wise woman who will talk with us about the value and importance of writing our stories. Here is what she has to say about her presentation: A memoir can be a way not only to make sense (and even art) of your life, but it also can so anchor your relationship to the deeper strata of your true existence that, years later, re-reading your book can … [Read more...]
Memoir writers need to be consummate storytellers, grabbing for our craft toolbox the techniques that make all stories great: well rounded characters, an interesting plot, scintillating scenes that make us feel, see, smell and taste. We have to translate our inner world of memory to that of story. At NAMW, we are so pleased to offer this workshop on Story Crafting with our own popular teacher, Jerry Waxler. Teleclass 4 weeks starting April 23, 2012 Mondays, April 23, 30, May 7, May 14 … [Read more...]
Free Roundtable Event April 5, 2012 4 PM PDT 5 PM MDT 6 PM CDT 7 PM EDT Learn from these creative and courageous women about the choices they made to publish their memoirs. Jonna self-published on Kindle, and Denise spent many years looking to be traditionally published. They will talk about why they made these choices and discuss the pros and cons of each method. Presentation points: Fear of telling the truth, and how that affects the publishing journey Seeking an agent and/or … [Read more...]
April National Association of Memoir Writers Member Teleseminar April 27, 2012 11 AM PDT 12 PM MDT 1 PM CDT 2 PM EDT We are so pleased to welcome Marion Roach Smith, author of The Memoir Project to talk about The Territory of Memoir! Memoir is about territory. To write a piece of memoir, you have to stake out what’s yours, define it and walk its perimeter. The good news is that your territory is smaller than you think, and is defined by an area of your expertise. … [Read more...]
1. In your book A Lethal Inheritance, you weave science and research in with your personal story. What were the special challenges of interweaving science with your memoir—and was it emotionally wearing to use your own family as a case study? Even after I started putting the personal and the scientific pieces of this story together, I didn’t initially have the intention of going back three generations and looking deeply into my family mental health history. In fact, I resisted it. … [Read more...]
March 16, 2012 Member Teleseminar With Victoria Costello, author of A Lethal Inheritance. 11 AM PST; 12 PM MST; 1 PM CST; 2 PM EST From Victoria Costello: I believe that every memoir has the writer’s family history at its core. Even if ancestors are never mentioned, they are present—even omnipresent in your true story. That’s because the impetus for so much life writing, whether conscious or unconscious, is to remove the scab from a family wound and heal it. … [Read more...]
Brooke Warner, Senior Editor at Seal Press, and Linda Joy Myers, President of NAMW are opening up a discussion about techniques that help you get unstuck--ways to conquer the walls that rise up to impede our memoir journey. As memoirists, we know how writing is a long journey, with many different phases. Understanding these phases in the writing process is important—writing and creating an art form is all about process, not just the goal. Most writers we work with in our coaching and … [Read more...]
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