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Just Start Something. Anything.
The 26-Minute Memoir Project started as a dream. I woke up from the dream and wrote for 26 minutes, trying to capture the essence of my life. That was five years ago–before I started the blog Writing Is My Drink … Continue reading
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Getting Past “Write Every Day” Writing Advice
When I was in my 20s and 30s and wanting to be a writer (and yet not quite, um, writing), the only type of writing advice that seemed to come my way was some version of Hemingway’s credo “You must … Continue reading
Try This: Create a Timeline of Your Creative History
Hi Readers, At the end of each chapter of Writing Is My Drink: A Writer’s Story of Finding Her Voice (And a Guide to How You Can Too), I included “Try This” activities designed to help lead you into your … Continue reading
Getting My Writing Groove Back
Good news, Readers: I’ve been given a new writing deadline.* How badly did I need a deadline? Very. I’ve been out of my writing groove, a direct result no doubt of launching a book about finding my writing voice. Life … Continue reading
Take a Memoir 101 Telecourse with Theo
Interested in getting started writing memoir? Enroll in my Memoir 101 course, a five-class teleseminar that will teach you the fundamentals of memoir writing and guide you through generative writing tasks designed to help you discover your material and bring … Continue reading
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Drink Interviews Lisa Dale Norton, Author of SHIMMERING IMAGES
Hi Readers, I’m handing in Writing Is My Drink: A Field Guide to Finding Your Own Voice to my editor next week. Yay! I’ll be excited to be back to posting here more once that deadline has passed. In 2008 … Continue reading
Posted in Author Interviews, Interviews, Memoirists, Writing Tips
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Gretchen Roberts: A PT Writer Earning FT Pay
I have to say I am becoming more enamored with the idea of self-publication, especially when paired with publishing through more traditional routes to gain audience, credits, and (semi-)predictable pay. And that is exactly what Gretchen Roberts, a freelance journalist … Continue reading
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One part writing, six parts living
It’s actually going to be nice here in the Northwest this weekend, and I plan to be deeply out in it. We’ve had this summer that just refuses to start, and this weekend temps are scheduled to soar to the … Continue reading
Guest Blogger Jennifer Crowder: Discovering a Revision Secret
Hi All, When my former student Jennifer Crowder told me about how she finally found a way to revise a story she’d be working on for several years (hey, it happens), I asked her if she’d share her experience with … Continue reading
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Memoir: It IS All About You
Last week when Claire Dederer, author of the new memoir Poser, was the guest speaker in my Writing the Memoir class at UW, she articulated something about memoir that I believe should be taught in elementary schools where tomorrow’s memoir … Continue reading
Posted in Memoirists, More Stuff for Writers, Writing Tips
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