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...]
I'm so pleased to be sharing my version of the journey of memoir writing at Nina Amir's special blog to celebrate National Lifewriting Month! This is the month that memoir writers join the fiction folks over at NaNoWriMo to write as much as 50,000 words in 30 days. That is 6.5 pages a day. Can you do it? Are you willing to dedicate a couple of hours a day to see just how much you can write? Tips for what we'll call MemoirWriMo: 1. Write fast, let 'er rip. 2. Feed your … [Read more...]
During our online workshops and discussions, the subject of how much truth to reveal comes up frequently, and we consider various published memoirs as examples. What confounds many memoir writers is not only how much truth is revealed, but how to find the language to tell the tale. On of my favorite examples is Mary Karr's Lit--the third in her memoir series that began with The Liar's Club. I recommend all three books, not because we should imitate them or try to write like Mary, but to see … [Read more...]
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