Rather than interviewing others, you may assume you can depend on your memory when you write your lifestories—but memory isn’t always as reliable as you want it to be! In this lesson, you will study why to conduct an interview which people who shared the experience you are writing about and how to do so. […]
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6. Work With or Through Pain
Pain is often a barrier to memoir writing. Who wants to revisit difficult times? Although delving into the past is a generally pleasant experience and promotes healing and growth, it can also be painful. In fact, sooner or later, pain seems to come with memoir writing. This pain, if not handled well, can inhibit—and even […]
Memoir Writers Are Masters Sculptors, Part 2
7 Techniques for Finding Your Story Structure In Part 1, we discussed how memoir writers are like sculptors. Today, I will share a few techniques I learned and used to find the story structure for my memoir, Ever Faithful to His Lead: My Journey Away From Emotional Abuse.
My Father Loved to Tell a Story
My father loved to tell a story. He would sit three or four of us on his lap and ask us what kind of story we wanted to hear. “Perhaps un petit rien tout nu (a little naked nothing)?” he’d suggest. Not knowing what that was, we would nod our heads eagerly. “Do you want […]
Writing Basics/Getting It Right the First Time Around
Writing Basics/Getting It Right The First Time Around is a 4 MP3 set.
Editor’s Start-up Package
While we are proud of our Memoir Editor’s Manual (and our Memoir Editor’s Manual Plus), we realize that many aspiring editors may need more support than we can offer in the Manual. This copious collection of manuals, books, and MP3s provided you in this unique Editor’s Start Up Package will ensure you the support and […]
Albert Leaves for War, and I Go Back Home
The following is an excerpt from We Were not Spoiled by Lucille Ledoux as told to Denis Ledoux. The trip to Syracuse We left our wedding guests at 1:30 for the train trip to Albert’s base in Syracuse, N.Y. Since it was still summer and the sun was out late, we saw much beautiful country […]
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Start adding your stories to your scrapbooks today! The whole story is not being told without them. A diligent scrapbooker for many years, I felt I was already capturing the meaning of photos in my albums, but The Photo Scribe has inspired me to a new level of photo-journaling. —Rhonda Kanning Anderson, Co-founder, Creative Memories […]
Waxler’s Memoir Revolution Helps Writers Understand a Cultural and Literary Revolution
Jerry Waxler is clearly a man who knows his way around memoir writing. Those of us who have been following his blog, post after post, at Memory Writers Network and have immensely enjoyed his thoughtful commentary on memoir writing, his in-depth profiles of leading memoirist and memoir professionals, and his penetrating reviews of hot-off the […]