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Memoir Writing Prompt: The Power of Story

by Matilda ButlerMay 21, 2012
Memoir Writing Prompt: The Power of StoryMemoir Writing Prompt: The Power of Story

Women’s Memoirs shares a family story and how research in the social sciences helps us better understand the people in our memoirs.

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Memoir Writing Tips: Exercises Inspired by Bach and Cicero

by Matilda ButlerMay 18, 2012
Memoir Writing Tips: Exercises Inspired by Bach and Cicero

Join Women’s Memoirs today as we explore writing tips inspired by J.S. Bach and M.T. Cicero. Let us know your thoughts by leaving us a note in the Comments section.

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Memoir Writing Prompts: Joseph Campbell and Crossing of the Return Threshold

by Matilda ButlerMay 17, 2012
Memoir Writing Prompts: Joseph Campbell and Crossing of the Return Threshold

Post #148 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler Day 5, The Final Phase of a Memoir Author’s Mythic Journey Congratulations. We have arrived at the end of the journey as explained by Joseph Campbell and exemplified by Gail Straub. For the past four days, I’ve described phases of Campbell’s journey […]

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Memoir Writing Prompts: Joseph Campbell and Apotheosis

by Matilda ButlerMay 15, 2012
Memoir Writing Prompts: Joseph Campbell and Apotheosis

Women’s Memoirs Examines a fourth phase of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey — matching it with memoir author Gail Straub’s description of her five phases in writing and publishing her memoir. These phases may help you in your journey to write your lifestory.

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Memoir Writing Prompts: Joseph Campbell and Atonement with the Father

by Matilda ButlerMay 15, 2012
Memoir Writing Prompts: Joseph Campbell and Atonement with the Father

Welcome back as Women’s Memoirs continues with our third day of exploring Joseph Campbell’s stages of the Hero’s Journey. In this third of five days this week, we look at Atonement With the Father, the stage that best matches the one memoir author Gail Struab called Descent into the Darkness. Straub uses five Campbell stages to explain her mythic memoir journey.

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Memoir Writing Tip: Joseph Campbell, The Supernatural Aid, and Road of Trials

by Matilda ButlerMay 14, 2012
Memoir Writing Tip: Joseph Campbell, The Supernatural Aid, and Road of Trials

Today Women’s Memoirs continues with our second day of exploring Joseph Campbell’s stages of the Hero’s Journey. This is the second of five days this week when we investigate the five stages that match with the five that memoir author Gail Straub uses to explain her mythic memoir journey.

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Memoir Writing Tip: Joseph Campbell and The Call

by Matilda ButlerMay 13, 2012
Memoir Writing Tip: Joseph Campbell and The Call

Today Women’s Memoirs begins to explore the stages of the Hero’s Journey as researched by Joseph Campbell. This week we’ll look at five of his stages, the five the memoir author Gail Straub uses to explain her mythic memoir journey.

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