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You can become good at writing!

Denis Ledoux — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:40:46 +0000

To create a successful workshop business of helping people to write their memoir, you must become adept with the memoir genre itself. You must learn to write better memoir yourself. Being a good fiction writer or a poet or an essayist is not enough. You must have read many memoirs and have written in the […]

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 […]

More memoir-writing resources at The Memoir Network.

Denis Ledoux — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:24:27 +0000

“Free” can take you only so far. For more resources to take you deeper into memoir writing, explore these resources. (more…)

How I Launched Myself Publicly in the Creative Life: I Publish a Book

Denis Ledoux — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0000

“Is it possible to support myself in the creative life?” you ask.One day in 1988, I stood in front of a door, on the other side of which was a group of Foster Grandparents. I had in hand a copy of my recent collection of autobiographical short stories What Became of Them and Other Stories […]

How The Memoir Network Evolved

Denis Ledoux — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:56:49 +0000

The Memoir Network evolved with thought. Its services—which are necessary for the success of writers and of the Memoir Network—grew regularly over a decade. (more…)

Giving the Memoir Workshop Structure. Winging It Doesn’t Work

Denis Ledoux — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:00:19 +0000

The Curriculum Manual focuses on the memoir workshop structure. “Winging it” has a certain value at times, but structure always leads to faster learning. (more…)

My Love Story with Memoir Writing: How I Started to Teach Memoir Workshops

Denis Ledoux — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:00:10 +0000

I was asked to read from my autobiographical fiction to a group of foster grandparents. It was to prove how I started to teach memoir workshops. (more…)

Leading a Conference Workshop as a Guest Presenter

Madeline Sharples — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Participating in writing conferences, either as a panelist, lecturer, or as a workshop leader is a great way to get your name and book out in public and to network with other writers like you—especially when you are leading a conference workshop. Being a presenter comes with tasks, but the challenge is not impossible. I’d […]

Launching Your Memoir Teaching – 6 Steps To More Success

Denis Ledoux — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 11:04:18 +0000

Many memoir writers secretly, or not so secretly, want to help other people to write their memoirs. Sometimes they do this informally with a friend or two, and at other times, they get a bit more organized and offer a class at a library or other institution. One thing is certain, launching your memoir teaching […]

Retiring to Memoir Writing: Justine Powell Kuntz

Justine Kuntz — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:55:29 +0000

Eight years ago as a retirement project for church, I introduced memoir writing… (more…)