Memoir Writing in Five

Post #10 – Memoir and Fiction, Writing Alchemy – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

In a previous Writing in Five video, I introduced you to a book on writing and style that has seen more geography than Marco Polo. My copy of Sheridan Baker’s The Practical Stylist (Amazon affiliate link) has been traveling the country–from coast to coast, university to university, home to home and job to job since I graduated from high school more than 40 years ago.

In a build up to the publication of Matilda Butler’s and my new book Writing Alchemy (Knowledge Access Books, 2010), we’ve been doing a series of Writing in Five videos, which you can find either on Women’s Memoirs or on our YouTube Women’s Memoirs Channel. In Part I, I called on Mr. Baker to give us his insight into writing the simple paragraph. In Part II, below, I explain the power of the well-written and well-structured paragraph to convey our thoughts with focus and clarity and make it easy for the reader to navigate our ideas. [click to continue…]

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