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catnav-scrapmoir-active-3Post #28 – Women’s Memoirs, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett

By Bettyann Schmidt

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain….I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained

I’m quoting from my current read: The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. When I read this on the page, I realized the profundity of the statement. Life on this earth is not happiness and sunshine every day, and must we to treat it as such? In my scrapbook stories, I’ve tried to tell the truth, included the bad as well as the good, but it didn’t come easy. [click to continue…]

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ScrapMoir How To #7: The Point

by Bettyann SchmidtJanuary 28, 2010
ScrapMoir How To #7: The Point

Bettyann Schmidt, guest blogger and scrapbooking expert, takes us to the heart of memoir writing by having us focus on “the point.” Bring focus to your work and your understand yourself better and have more clarity in your writing.

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Julie & Julia Week at Women’s Memoir Writing

by Kendra BonnettDecember 28, 2009
Julie & Julia Week at Women’s Memoir Writing

Women’s Memoirs celebrates the last week of 2009 by dining on Julie & Julia. We’ll discuss what the blog, book and movie mean to memoir writers, foodies and bloggers.

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500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #13 on Bridging Experiences

by Promptly PortlandDecember 22, 2009
500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #13 on Bridging Experiences

Promptly Portland gives you an opportunity to think and write about your personal bridges — life transitions where friends or your own personal values have helped you cross into new territory.

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500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #10

by Promptly PortlandNovember 30, 2009
500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #10

Promptly Portland gives us a writing prompt challenge and lets us think about our lives in a new way.

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500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #9

by Promptly PortlandNovember 24, 2009
500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #9

Promptly Portland puts us in the mood for Thanksgiving with this memoir writing prompt that focuses us on a real and an imagined scene of gratitude.

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500 Words (or More): Writing Prompt #8

by Promptly PortlandNovember 15, 2009
500 Words (or More): Writing Prompt #8

Writing Prompt. Promptly Portland shares a bit of her life story and provides a memoir writing prompt to get you thinking about the types of trails you have followed in your life.

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