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Memoir Moment #7 with Jessica Bram

by Matilda ButlerJuly 5, 2009
Memoir Moment #7 with Jessica Bram

In this Memoir Moment, Jessica Bram shares insights from her work on her memoir’s opening. Once 12 pages long, it appears in her published memoir Happily Ever After Divorced as less than one page. Listen in as Jessica describes what she did and what she needed the opening to accomplish. If you don’t know about the concept of a “take away,” Jessica’s explanation will send you back to work with a new tool to help you with your opening

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Memoir Moment #5: Action vs. Backstory

by Matilda ButlerMarch 2, 2009
Memoir Moment #5: Action vs. Backstory

This Memoir Moment, hosted by Matilda Butler, interviews Joyce Boatright, author and president of Story Circle Network. Joyce talks about advice for beginning a story that she gives when teaching and then the advice she found she had to follow when writing her own memoir.

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