RSS Feed1. 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...]
Interview with Victoria Costello about Mental Illness, A Lethal Inheritance and Memoir Writing
March 14, 2012 By
Memoir Writing and Mental Illness–A Lethal Inheritance by Victoria Costello
March 14, 2012 By
Victoria Costello is our Member Teleseminar guest Friday, March 16 with the topic Finding Your Way Through Your Family History. You're in for a deep and informative conversation about truth, memoir, scientific research combined with story, and the legacy of mental illness. In her informative and teeth-clenching memoir, Victoria does a brave thing: she combines her considerable scientific research about the causes and treatments of mental illness—the history of and the current state … [Read more...]
March 2012 Year of the Memoir Newsletter
March 9, 2012 By
Welcome to our new newsletter format, and thanks for joining us. I enjoy celebrating the seasons-- the time of year, amount of light and our attitude towards holidays and rituals informs many memoirs and our cycles of creativity. Take a look at our upcoming events at the National Association of Memoir Writers, along with tips, prompts, and resources that can help your writing life. March Events: March 16 Member Teleseminar—Memoir Writing Teleseminar: Finding Your Way through Your Family … [Read more...]
Memoir Writing Teleseminar: Finding Your Way Through Your Family History
March 1, 2012 By
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...]
