Today, Wednesday March 10, 2011, Linda Joy Myers, Author of the Power of Memoir and National Association of Memoir Writers President and Founder, asks “How Does Writing Help You?”

10 Memoir Writing Tips Included!

Join Linda Joy Myers today, Wednesday March 10, 2011, on her blog tour stop with Meryl K. Evans, hostess of the Meryl’s Notes Blog. Linda Joy has written an article on Meryl’s blog about Interweaving Dark and Light Stories that includes as list of 10 writing tips. Learn more about writing for healing inside the Power of Memoir: Writing Your Healing Story, Linda Joy’s latest book.

Leave a comment on the the Meryl’s Notes blog and share the answer to Linda’s questions for you today: How does writing help you?

Linda Joy and Meryl are both looking forward to hearing from you!

You may be wondering, what is a blog tour? A blog tour is a virtual book tour. Instead of going to your local library or bookstore to see an author speak, you go to a website before an assigned date to post questions OR after an assigned date to read an author’s interview in the comfort of your own home. You can meet Linda Joy and learn more about her without even leaving your chair!

Dates	Featured Sites
March 5	Women’s Memoirs: http://womensmemoirs.com/memoir-writing-prompts/memoir-guest-blog-and-writing-prompt-linda-joy-myers-discusses-the-power-of-memoir/
March 8	The Muffin: http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/blog.html
March 9	http://writerinspired.wordpress.com
March 10	www.meryl.net/blog
March 12	http://daybydaywriter.wordpress.com
March 15	www.pickthebrain.com
March 16 & 17	www.cathychall.blogspot.com
March 19	www.jodiwebb.com
March 23	http://shaicoggins.com
March 24 & 25	http://www.100memoirs.com/

Linda Joy Myers, President of the National Association of Memoir Writers Makes First Blog Tour Stop This Friday, March 5, 2010 to Promote the Power of Memoir

Women’s Memoirs Blog to Conduct Interview

Join Linda Joy Myers on her first blog tour stop as she discusses the Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story.

Linda has written a beautiful blog entry, Writing from the Inside Out—Open Your Mind and Change Your Life on the Women’s Memoirs website.

Linda will be interviewed this Friday, by Women’s Memoirs and will answer the questions you post in advance of Friday. Post your questions now at http://womensmemoirs.com/memoir-writing-prompts/memoir-guest-blog-and-writing-prompt-linda-joy-myers-discusses-the-power-of-memoir/ Read more

[Book Reading by Linda Joy Myers] The Power of Memoir at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore

Sunday, February 21, 4:00 p.m.
The Power of Memoir—How to Write Your Healing Story
Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore
Berkeley, CA

If you wish to place an order for The Power of Memoir at Mrs. Dalloway’s, you can order books from them by phone (510.704.8222), fax (510.704.8228) or e-mail (ord...@mrsdalloways.com). They offer free delivery in the Elmwood (and to Alta Bates Hospital), and they ship worldwide.

Linda Joy Myers reads from The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story (Jossey Bass, $16.95), her groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problems. This is a pioneering how-to book that provides a new step-by-step program to use memoir writing as a therapeutic process. By going through these steps you’ll learn how to choose the significant milestones and turning points that make up a coherent story leading to a life-changing epiphany. Included are sections that help uncover the secret stories that are the keys to healing; explore the dynamics and roles of dysfunctional families; and heal old wounds, creating a better present and brighter future.Using many examples from her students and clients, Myers shows how creative, well-planned, and carefully researched memoir writing can offer a process for sorting out the truth from lies and family myths. Click here to learn more from source.

The Power of Memoir is on Kindle!

Surprise, surprise. I just discovered that Kindle already has my new book. No yet officially released, it’s available already on Kindle! The wonders of the digital world! So now people are buying it, downloading it and writing me–this is great.

No matter how many times a writer gets published, there is the thrill of knowing that your words and ideas are moving out into the world and being shared with others. I’m passionate about the power of memoir to heal and to create new connections with others. Every week in my work with other writers, I see how writing our stories helps us to be more creative in our personal lives and gives us joy.

I wish everyone a Happy New Year, and I hope that if you feel the desire to write, that today you will sit down and listen to that voice within you, and write.

New book: The Power of Memoir by Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D.

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 need to heal the pain of the past and create a better present and brighter future.

Visit ThePowerOfMemoir.com
$16.95 U.S. | $19.95 Canada | Click here to order from Amazon.

Inaugural National Day on Writing

Listen in to this downloadable audio as Linda Joy Myers Ph.D., MFT, President and Founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers (NAMW) shares her thoughts on this inaugural National Day on Writing.

Linda Joy Myers Discusses Memoir Writing by Mary Yerkes

National Association of Memoir Writers Founder Shares Her Story
by Mary Yerkes (NAMW member)

Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., MFT, is the founder and president of the National Association of Memoir Writers and author of the award-winning book, Don’t Call Me Mother.

A practicing California therapist, Ms. Myers specializes in using creativity, art, and writing as tools for personal healing. The following interview offers a glimpse into the life of one of today’s significant voices in memoir writing.

Suite 101: You are very passionate about memoir writing. What ignited that passion?

Linda Joy Myers: When I was eight and my great-grandmother was eighty, I lay in a feather bed next to her, where she whispered to me the stories of her life in the 19th century–the farm life in Iowa where she was a midwife, raised seven children, cooked, baked, and gardened all day long before electricity or telephones. I learned that the legacy of her daughter, my grandmother, and my mother was not one she approved of. As I lay beside her, I realized that the history of everything was inside her, that her understanding of my mother and grandmother was something I needed for survival. I saw that everyone was simply living out a history that had begun long before I was born. Memoir is the capturing of these stories, one of the most important things we can do: creating the thread of understanding and perspective that is part of our own legacy. Read more

Discovering Midlife Creativity by Dotsie Bregel

Teleseminar: Discovering Midlife Creativity by Dotsie Bregel
Date: June 8, 2008
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