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What I’m Digging Right Now
Moonlight and all the conversations surrounding this film. I’m touched by the autobiographical impulse behind Moonlight; the vulnerability of the writer and the director, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Barry Jenkins, and the complexity of the protagonist, Chiron; and the simple … Continue reading
4 New Year’s Resolutions for Memoirists
Want to finish your memoir this year? Here are four resolutions to help you create an enduring memoir that transforms your individual experience into a universal one that speaks to a wide readership. 1. This year I will make myself … Continue reading
Posted in Memoirists, More Stuff for Writers, Writing Tips
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Two Good Reasons to Read Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit
I first learned of Twyla Tharp’s book The Creative Habit from Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, when she quoted Tharp during a guest lecture for my memoir class. The quote? “You don’t really have … Continue reading
Posted in More Stuff for Writers, What I'm Reading Now, Writing Tips
Tagged writing activities, writing advice
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The Question that Haunts: How to BE now?
It was a single candle that broke me open this morning. I stood outside the French doors of my new writing buddy’s house and peeked into her living room at my spot where I write while she works at the … Continue reading
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How to Keep on Writing that Freaking Book!
Question: When is 9 months “a year”? Answer: When the 9 months is spent in a manuscript class. I teach a memoir manuscript class here in Seattle at Hugo House. The class runs 9 months from September to June, and … Continue reading
Posted in Memoirists, More Stuff for Writers, Writing Tips
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Writer
We writers often slip into believing we must have perfect conditions to write. But the truth is when we truly must commit our words to the page, we will write–despite the conditions. Four days after white clergy published a statement … Continue reading
“I want to double down on me.”
I’ve been pretty obsessed with Jill Soloway’s series Transparent this winter break, which led me to reading Ariel Levy’s fabulous profile of Soloway in The New Yorker titled “Dolls and Feelings.” There are a dozen reason why any emerging writer should read this profile, but the juncture of Soloway’s story that keeps replaying in my head is the one at which her career was at its lowest point and she made the decision to “double down” on herself. Continue reading
Posted in Cheryl Strayed, More Stuff for Writers, Writing Tips
Tagged Cheryl Strayed, emerging writers, Jill Soloway, Memoir, Transparent, Writing
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A Short Gratitude list for a gray December Morning
1. What genius invented the Mandarin orange? I’m not a person who likes to struggle for food. Cracking and scraping my way through a plate of crab hardly feels worth it. Shelled nuts? Seriously? Sunflower seeds? No! Yet, I love … Continue reading
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Registration now open for January Memoir Essentials Webinar with Theo Pauline Nestor
This course has now passed but it is still possible to register and receive recordings of all four sessions as well as the corresponding handouts. To register, pay via the pink Pay Pal button below. “What happened to the writer … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir 101, More Stuff for Writers, Webinars
Tagged Memoir, memoir writing, webinars
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Writing Is My Drink 