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Memoir Writers are Master Sculptors, Part 1

Kathleen Pooler — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:30:01 +0000

As authors, we are artists and we create masterpieces through our words. Here’s how as memoir writers are master sculptors. With the recent launch her first memoir, Ever Faithful to His Lead: My Journey Away From Emotional Abuse, Kathy Pooler is reminded that the process of envisioning, carving, chiseling and shaping our book can be […]

3 Tips for a Better Author Blog

Sandra Beckwith — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:50:43 +0000

“What do you think of my website and my author blog?” It’s one of the questions I hear the most from authors, whether they write memoirs or mysteries. I wish that my answer each and every time was, “It’s fantastic!” . . . but it isn’t. And more often than not, the problem is with […]

Hot Flash Memoir: Family Photo Album

Jane Hertenstein — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

This is how I learned about hot flash memoir. As I was cleaning out my parent’s house I made all kinds of discoveries. Like most kids (I’m referring to myself here), I never once thought of my parents as people. They were Mom and Dad. What they did before me really never entered my mind. […]

Listening to Grief: The Boys Laugh Again

Edwina Jangarathis — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Eyes squeezed tightly shut, I listen for the laughter of my two grandsons as I drift on my rubber raft. I’m certain if I’m silent and try hard enough I’ll hear the laughter of the boys again. Glimpses of summer days when we laughed together flash through my mind. One day, we linked our three […]

Mining Memoir Depths: Spelunking of the Mind

Marilea Rabasa — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 15:30:00 +0000

I enjoy many forms of physical exercise, from climbing mountains, to backpacking along trails, to bicycling, and even swimming. But mostly nowadays I just go hiking, sometimes with my grandchildren and partner, but often alone. Working the muscles of my body is good for me and helps keep my joints working. I feel better after […]

Holding the Pen—Writing the Story of My Life

Lin Joyce — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000

When writing the story of my life, I didn’t let anyone else hold the pen For the past eight months, I have been writing my lifestory. As a professional personal historian, I believe in practicing what I preach to those in my lifestory writing workshops. I have even gone as far as hiring an editor […]

Writing a biography: First Franco: Albert Beliveau

Douglas Rooks — Tue, 25 May 2021 16:38:00 +0000

Writing a biography poses specific challenges and research problems that are sometimes parallel to, but in the end quite different from, those involved in memoir and historical fiction. (more…)

What Motivates Me to Write?

Denis Ledoux — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The simplest answer is that I’ve always loved to write, and lacking the creativity to write fiction, or the tenacity to research subjects for non-fiction, I write about what I know… (more…)

Why I’m Motivated to Write My Memoir? This is how I process life.

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 11:00:32 +0000

Why I’m motivated to write? I come back to my writing every day because I cannot stay away. It is how I process life. Writing helps me understand what has happened and how I feel about it. (more…)

What Motivates You to Write a Memoir? Joe Skinkis shares his reason

Denis Ledoux — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

I am a 75-year-old man who lives in Thailand with my 30-year-old wife. One day, we may have a child. I would like to have my child learn… (more…)