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How to Use Deadlines to Help Write Your Memoir

How to Use Deadlines to Help Write Your Memoir

Deadlines provide the memoirist with great incentives to complete their books. Without deadlines, you easily can muddle along producing only small amounts of your manuscript and possibly never finishing it. You also may continue writing, editing, revising or tinkering...
How to Use Deadlines to Help Write Your Memoir

The Personal (Not Private) Essay Dinty Moore

If you’ve been part of a writing group, you’ve no doubt encountered the writer who shares his work with others in the room, sits back for what he assumes will be unceasing praise, and then grows indignant when someone suggests that his words are not clear enough to...
How to Use Deadlines to Help Write Your Memoir

It’s the Truth, Y’all

  by Anna Mitchael   When I was 23, I wrote a novel about a Southern girl who leaves home and then returns after two decades away.The novel was completely fictitious and had nothing to do with my own story except the theme of leaving the South to make it in...
How Does Your Story Make Your Reader Feel?

How Does Your Story Make Your Reader Feel?

Jennifer Lauck   When I wrote my memoir Blackbird, I told the truth of how my mother died when I was seven and my father died when I was nine. I also told the truth of how I fell through the cracks of my family support system and found myself both homeless and...