If you are not already a member of NAMW, become a member for a limited time at a special sale price of $129 for a twelve month membership.   That’s a $20 savings off the regular cost of a 12 month membership!  Click here to become a member today. And if you are a current member, consider upgrading your Annual Membership to a Lifetime Membership and gain immediate access to an additional 20 audio recordings on the craft and business of memoir writing that are not currently available to our annual members.  To upgrade, simply login to the NAMW website and follow the link to Upgrade to a Lifetime Membership from the NAMW Member Control Panel. These Lifetime Memberships are full priced at $595 but for the next few days, we’ll offer a Lifetime Membership to our current members for $525! And if you are not a current member of NAMW, you can click here to become a Lifetime Member today! The full price of a Lifetime Membership for a first time member is $725, but is priced at $625 for the next few days as well!

We hope you enjoy your 4th of July Holiday. Look for our monthly online newsletter in your inbox on Tuesday July 5th!

If you have any questions about membership benefits at NAMW, please contact Staci at info@NAMW.org or via telephone at (952) 210-7657.  And NAMW members, be sure to visit the Memoir Writing Community Forums!  We can’t wait to meet you there!

Recordings Available of all Teleworkshops & Teleseminars!

NAMW members receive access to all of the past & current NAMW Member-only Teleseminars, including Teresa LeYung Ryan’s Teleseminar held last Friday.  And all of our workshop participants also receive access to recordings of their teleworkshop meetings, along with access to an online classroom for posting questions, writing samples and responses.

Below are the questions we’re continuing to hear.

“I want to participate, but I’m very busy this summer.”

“Can I still participate if I can’t make all the meeting dates?”

“Are recordings available of NAMW teleworkshops & teleseminars?”

THE ANSWER TO ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS IS “YES!”

So sign up today! And be sure to access the new Audio Download and all of our 25+ downloads available on the NAMW Member’s Audio Download Page.

Our summer Memoir Writing & NonFiction Tele-Workshops are filling up quickly! We know how busy you are during the summer months, so we’ve designed 2 different courses as short as 3 sessions in length or sessions that run the length of the summer, but take a few weeks off around holidays such as the 4th of July.  Read on to learn more about The Writer’s Survival Kit , which starts TODAY, Tuesday June 22nd and our Advanced Healing Memoir Writing & Spiritual Autobiography , which starts on Monday June 28th!  Full details can be found below.

Additionally, Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., MFT, NAMW President, has also posted a new blog post regarding the sometimes controversial Memoir writing topic of Memoir & Fiction: Truth or Lie. We would love to gain your opinion on the topic!  Visit the post by clicking here and leave a comment, feedback or reply!

Summer Teleworkshop #1– The Writer’s Survival Kit with Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., NAMW President—STARTS TODAY!

The Writer’s Survival Kit is a great course for Memoir Writers as well as NonFiction Writers in general.  If you’ve started your memoir or nonfiction writing project—freewriting, journaling, and collecting stories, ideas and outlines and as you write, questions develop that need your attention and solutions.   This two part series entitled, the Writer’s Survival Kit, will help you continue to move forward! [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE OR SIGN UP ONLINE]

Part 1: June 22-July 13     Part 2: July 13-July 27      Time: 3:00 PM PDT | 6:00 PM EDT

NAMW Lifetime Member: $85 for each Part NAMWAnnual Member: $95 for each Part NAMW-Non-Member: $135 for each Part

Save $10 by signing up for both Parts!

Click Here to Learn More or Sign up for 1 or Both Parts of the Workshop!

Want to receive a Discount on this workshop?  Become a Member today!

Summer Teleworkshop #2–Advanced Healing Memoir Writing & Spiritual Autobiography Monday OR Friday Summer Tele-Workshops, with Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., NAMW President

If you have been writing for a while and enjoy the process of understanding yourself through memoir writing, then this course is a great fit for you.

MONDAY Course Meeting Dates:  June 28, July 12, July 19, July 26, August 2 & August 9
MONDAY Meeting Time:  3 PM PDT | 4 PM MDT | 5 PM CDT | 6 PM EDT

OR

FRIDAY Course Meeting Dates: July 2, July  9, July 16, July 23, July 30 & August 6
FRIDAY Meeting Time: 8 AM PDT | 9 AM MDT |  10 AM CDT | 11 AM EDT

Level: Intermediate to Advanced Workshops  — 6 Sessions on Either Monday or Friday

The format: write your story for that week, email it to the workshop members. Write your feedback to each participant, and email it to them. Gather on the conference call once a week to discuss the work, get feedback from Linda and others on the call, and develop new ideas for your stories. Handouts are sent by email for new writing prompts or lessons.

The Goal of our Workshops
The goal of these workshops is to deepen your progress with your memoir, and to develop fictional techniques such as dialogue, scenes, point of view and structure. Developing new writing skills and getting support for your ongoing learning is a good reason to take an online workshop. Perhaps you have written some vignettes and now are ready for feedback.  [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE OR SIGN UP ONLINE]

NAMW Lifetime Members: $239      NAMW Annual Members:  $290         NAMW Non-Member: $390

Click Here to Learn More or Sign up.

Want to receive a Discount on this workshop?  Become a Member today!

If you have any questions about these courses, or the audio download, please let us know.  If you are already a member of NAMW, thank you.  And if you are considering membership and have questions, please contact us at info@namw.org or you can reach Staci in our Member Benefits Department via telephone at (952) 210-7657 (952) 210-7657.  Either way you choose to contact us, we’ll do our best to answer any questions you may have.

Be Brave.  Write Your Story!

Our summer Memoir Writing & NonFiction Tele-Workshops are filling up quickly! We know how busy you are during the summer months, so we’ve designed 2 different courses as short as 3 sessions in length or sessions that run the length of the summer, but take a few weeks off around holidays such as the 4th of July.  Read on to learn more about The Writer’s Survival Kit , which starts Tuesday on June 22nd and our Advanced Healing Memoir Writing & Spiritual Autobiography , which starts on Monday June 28th!  Full details can be found below.

NAMW is excited to welcome Writing Career Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan to our June Member-only Monthly Teleseminar.  Full details can be found by clicking here, including the telephone call-in details, which are now available to our current NAMW members.

Be sure to participate live or look for an audio mp3 file that can be downloaded within a few days following the presentation!

Summer Teleworkshop #1– The Writer’s Survival Kit with Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., NAMW President

The Writer’s Survival Kit is a great course for Memoir Writers as well as NonFiction Writers in general.  If you’ve started your memoir or nonfiction writing project—freewriting, journaling, and collecting stories, ideas and outlines and as you write, questions develop that need your attention and solutions.   This two part series entitled, the Writer’s Survival Kit, will help you continue to move forward! [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE OR SIGN UP ONLINE]

Part 1: June 22-July 13     Part 2: July 13-July 27      Time: 3:00 PM PDT | 6:00 PM EDT

NAMW Lifetime Member: $85 for each Part NAMWAnnual Member: $95 for each Part NAMW-Non-Member: $135 for each Part

Save $10 by signing up for both Parts!

Click Here to Learn More or Sign up for 1 or Both Parts of the Workshop!

Want to receive a Discount on this workshop?  Become a Member today!

Summer Teleworkshop #2–Advanced Healing Memoir Writing & Spiritual Autobiography Monday OR Friday Summer Tele-Workshops, with Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., NAMW President

If you have been writing for a while and enjoy the process of understanding yourself through memoir writing, then this course is a great fit for you.

MONDAY Course Meeting Dates:  June 28, July 12, July 19, July 26, August 2 & August 9
MONDAY Meeting Time:  3 PM PDT | 4 PM MDT | 5 PM CDT | 6 PM EDT

OR

FRIDAY Course Meeting Dates: July 2, July  9, July 16, July 23, July 30 & August 6
FRIDAY Meeting Time: 8 AM PDT | 9 AM MDT |  10 AM CDT | 11 AM EDT

Level: Intermediate to Advanced Workshops  — 6 Sessions on Either Monday or Friday

The format: write your story for that week, email it to the workshop members. Write your feedback to each participant, and email it to them. Gather on the conference call once a week to discuss the work, get feedback from Linda and others on the call, and develop new ideas for your stories. Handouts are sent by email for new writing prompts or lessons.

The Goal of our Workshops
The goal of these workshops is to deepen your progress with your memoir, and to develop fictional techniques such as dialogue, scenes, point of view and structure. Developing new writing skills and getting support for your ongoing learning is a good reason to take an online workshop. Perhaps you have written some vignettes and now are ready for feedback.  [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE OR SIGN UP ONLINE]

NAMW Lifetime Members: $239      NAMW Annual Members:  $290         NAMW Non-Member: $390

Click Here to Learn More or Sign up.

Want to receive a Discount on this workshop?  Become a Member today!

We also want to let you know that Linda Joy Myers will join Tina Games for a Journaling Moms telegathering on Friday, June 18th at noon EDT.  Tina & Linda will have a conversation about journal writing and how we can use it to tell our life stories – and to create personal essays and memoirs.  Journaling Moms is offering NAMW Members a special discount on annual membership for a limited time.  Join Journaling Moms for $197—this is a $50 savings off the full price of an annual membership!  Contact us to learn more! And if you aren’t quite ready to join Journaling Moms, know that we’ll provide the audio from Friday’s conversation to NAMW Members as soon as we have access to it!  We are truly excited to introduce you to Journaling Mom’s!

If you have any questions about these courses, the Member Teleseminar or Journaling Moms, please let us know.  If you are already a member of NAMW, thank you.  And if you are considering membership and have questions, please contact us at info@namw.org or you can reach Staci in our Member Benefits Department via telephone at (952) 210-7657.  Either way you choose to contact us, we’ll do our best to answer any questions you may have.

Be Brave.  Write Your Story!

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Topic: Fun & Simple Steps to Help Memoir Writers Thrive
Guest Speaker: Writing Career Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan
Date: Friday June 18, 2010
Time: 11 AM PDT |12 PM MDT | 1 PM CDT |2 PM EDT
Cost: FREE FOR NAMW MEMBERS

Call-In Details can be found below (Available to NAMW Members Only.  Members can login here).

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Not Available for the Live Call? NAMW members can access a link in the NAMW member area within a week of the teleseminar to download the audio mp3 of this call!

Not already a member of NAMW? Click here to become a member now!

How do writers thrive in the fiercely competitive industry? Find out for yourself in this delightful session with Coach Teresa who created Build Your Name, Beat the Game: Be Happily Published (the 22 minutes for 22 days workbook).

She will help you:

• understand the need to build one’s name/fame in today’s publishing arena.
• identify advocates, endorsers and fans.
• gain recognition through your words and your community.

NAMW is excited to announce 2 Summer Memoir Writing & NonFiction Writing Tele-Workshops! We know how busy you are during the summer months, so we’ve designed 2 different courses as short as 3 sessions in length or sessions that run the length of the summer, but take a few weeks off around holidays such as the 4th of July.

Summer Teleworkshop #1

The Writer’s Survival Kit with Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., NAMW President

The Writer’s Survival Kit is a great course for Memoir Writers as well as NonFiction Writers in general.  If you’ve started your memoir or nonfiction writing project—freewriting, journaling, and collecting stories, ideas and outlines and as you write, questions develop that need your attention and solutions.   This two part series entitled, the Writer’s Survival Kit, will help you continue to move forward! [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE OR SIGN UP ONLINE]

Part 1: June 22-July 13     Part 2: July 13-July 27      Time: 3:00 PM PDT | 6:00 PM EDT

NAMW Lifetime Member: $85 for each Part NAMWAnnual Member: $95 for each Part NAMW-Non-Member: $135 for each Part

Save $10 by signing up for both Parts!

Click Here to Learn More or Sign up for 1 or Both Parts of the Workshop!

Want to receive a Discount on this workshop?  Become a Member today!

Summer Teleworkshop #2

Advanced Healing Memoir Writing & Spiritual Autobiography Monday OR Friday Summer Tele-Workshops, with Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., NAMW President

If you have been writing for a while and enjoy the process of understanding yourself through memoir writing, then this course is a great fit for you.

MONDAY Course Meeting Dates:  June 28, July 12, July 19, July 26, August 2 & August 9
MONDAY Meeting Time:  3 PM PDT | 4 PM MDT | 5 PM CDT | 6 PM EDT

OR

FRIDAY Course Meeting Dates: July 2, July  9, July 16, July 23, July 30 & August 6

FRIDAY Meeting Time: 8 AM PDT | 9 AM MDT |  10 AM CDT | 11 AM EDT

Level: Intermediate to Advanced Workshops  — 6 Sessions on Either Monday or Friday

The format: write your story for that week, email it to the workshop members. Write your feedback to each participant, and email it to them. Gather on the conference call once a week to discuss the work, get feedback from Linda and others on the call, and develop new ideas for your stories. Handouts are sent by email for new writing prompts or lessons.

The Goal of our Workshops
The goal of these workshops is to deepen your progress with your memoir, and to develop fictional techniques such as dialogue, scenes, point of view and structure. Developing new writing skills and getting support for your ongoing learning is a good reason to take an online workshop. Perhaps you have written some vignettes and now are ready for feedback.  [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE OR SIGN UP ONLINE]

Mondays starting 6/28 at 3PM PDT | 6PM EDT or Fridays starting 7/2 at 8AM PDT|11AM EDT

Length:  6 Sessions

NAMW Lifetime Members: $239 NAMW Annual Members:  $290 NAMW Non-Member: $390

Click Here to Learn More or Sign up for 1 or Both Parts of the Workshop!

Want to receive a Discount on this workshop?  Become a Member today!

If you have any questions about these courses, please let us know.  If you are already a member of NAMW, thank you.  And if you are considering membership and have questions, please contact us at info@namw.org or you can reach Staci in our Member Benefits Department via telephone at (952) 210-7657.  Either way you choose to contact us, we’ll do our best to answer any questions you may have.

Be Brave.  Write Your Story!

Presented by:  Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., NAMW President

NAMW is excited to announce our summer Memoir Writing & NonFiction Tele-Workshops! We know how busy you are during the summer months, so we’ve broken this course down into two separate sessions: Part 1 & Part 2.  Attend one or both Sessions, as your schedule permits.  And as with all NAMW workshops, if you can’t attend all of the dates, you can download an audio recording of each class when you sign up to participate in the session!

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to sign up for Part 1, Part 2 or Both!

Session 1, Part One Dates:

Tuesday June 22

Tuesday June 29

Tuesday July 6

Time:  3:00 PM PDT | 4:00 PM MDT | 5:00 PM CDT | 6:00 PM EDT

Session 2, Part Two Dates:

Tuesday July 13

Tuesday July 20

Tuesday July 27

Time:  3:00 PM PDT | 4:00 PM MDT | 5:00 PM CDT | 6:00 PM EDT

You’ve started your memoir or nonfiction writing project—freewriting, journaling, and collecting stories, ideas and outlines. As you write, questions develop that need your attention and solutions.   These two part series entitled, the Writer’s Survival Kit, will help you continue to move forward!

Part One

Discuss the basics of writing memoir and nonfiction.

The skills for writing nonfiction are the same as for memoir—to write about a subject in such a way that it grabs readers and keeps them turning the pages. Story is one way that readers stay engaged. Story is composed of several components. The most important of these are scenes, theme, narrative arc, and sensual details.

Topics that will be discussed include:

• Do I really need to write scenes, and why? We will discuss this and learn about using sensual details, dialogue, and setting.
• How do I find the themes in my work? The themes of your work are a thread that continues throughout the piece, a path through the forest of ideas and words.
• What is a narrative arc of story and do I need it? The narrative voice, narrative arc, and plot are tools that create a structure for your work.

In part one of this workshop, we will discuss these important tools for writers.   You’ll also be able to post comments and have discussions within the NAMW Forum Classroom.

Part Two

As you work on your project, you discover the need to understand certain conventions about using real people as examples in your nonfiction, or as characters in your memoir. You discover that you need to keep track of several threads of the stories, and to capture scenes in a complete way. Examples will be used to show you how other authors use these skills in their writing. And, last but not least, if you are a writer, you have tons of paper, files, and misnamed documents where it’s hard to find what you have written and a challenge to keep track. Being a writer means having a system for your files and ideas, which helps you to develop your projects in a flow that enhances creativity.

Topics that will be discussed include:

• Real people—managing truth telling, secrets, and naming.
• Deepening skills—integrating thoughts, action, dialogue, and reaction. Layering.
• Being a writer—keeping track, organizing files, revision, editing, writing time and groups.

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About Linda Joy:

Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., MFT, is the President and Founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers.  For the last thirty years Linda Joy has been a therapist in Berkeley, California. She is the author of The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story, Don’t Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother Daughter Abandonment & Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story.

Linda’s prize-winning nonfiction and poetry has been published in various literary journals. Her novel excerpt, Secret Music, a novel about the kindertransport, was a finalist in the San Francisco Writing Conference contest. Her memoir piece Aunt Edith’s Lemon Meringue Pie can be read here: http://www.themonthly.com/feature6-07-07.html

Linda is past-president of The California Writers Club, Marin branch, was co-President on the board of the Women’s National Book Association, and is currently on the board of Story Circle Network.

Linda received her MFA at Mills College, and has taught Marriage and Family Therapy. In addition to her degrees in psychology, Linda has a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Illinois, and a B.A. in Art from the University of California, Berkeley.

If your answer to these questions is, “Yes,” then please be sure to mark your calendar for July’s NAMW Member-only Teleseminar with Susan Daffron as she discusses, I Have A Memoir, Now What?

You’ll also have a chance to ask Susan questions about this new NAMW Member Benefit that provides Members with a 30% discount off the full price of Memoir Cover Design & Interior Memoir Layout Services!

Interested in learning more about this new benefit now?  Email info@namw.org to be connected directly with Susan!

DETAILS OF OFFER:

30% off Discount for Memoir Layout for NAMW Members

Susan Daffron of Logical Expressions, Inc. is offering a special rate on cover design and interior layout services just for NAMW members.

In addition to publishing her own 10 books, Susan is a designer with more than 15 years of experience laying out books and other long documents using industry-standard software, such as Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.

After you have finished your manuscript and had it edited, a professional layout is the next step. The special NAMW price depends on the length of your memoir.  NAMW members receive a 30% discount off the full price for this service!

Sample Pricing *Including* NAMW Discount

Small Memoir – 100-150 pages (30,000 – 45,000 words)  = $1000

Medium Memoir – 151-225 pages (45,300 – 67,500 words) = $1250

Long Memoir – 226+ pages (67,501+ words) = $1650

You also will receive a PDF booklet that explains the steps you need to take to publish your memoir with a checklist with information on purchasing ISBNs and getting your memoir printed and listed on online booksellers like Amazon.com. Susan also will be available to answer your questions and guide you through the publishing process.

NOTE: Unlike some “publishing service companies,” Susan and Logical Expressions are simply offering professional design services to NAMW members. You will retain all your rights, receive all of your book profits, and be the publisher of record.

If you have any questions about this or other benefits of being an NAMW member, contact info@namw.org or call Staci at 1 (800) e-memoir!  No matter how you choose to contact us, we’ll do our best to answer your questions!