Writing and Healing: The Places We’ve Lived

by Pamela JaneMarch 6, 2011
Writing and Healing: The Places We’ve Lived

Pamela Jane Bell shares her experiences with childhood homes and how healing it can be to write about those places.

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Journal Writing Sense: Using Music to Set the Tone

by Amber Lea StarfireMarch 5, 2011
Journal Writing Sense: Using Music to Set the Tone

Whether you write in the still of the night or to the pace of music, Amber Lea Starfire suggests way that music, the right music, can help all journalers.

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The Mothers of Rosie’s Daughters: Top Secret Rosies

by Matilda ButlerMarch 4, 2011
The Mothers of Rosie’s Daughters: Top Secret Rosies

Women’s History Month: New documentation on the important role that a group of women mathematicians played during World War II.

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Memoir Writing Contest: Groundhog’s Day 1956 by Judy Watters

by Matilda ButlerMarch 3, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: Groundhog’s Day 1956 by Judy Watters

A charming story vividly told makes Groundhog’s Day 1956 by Judy Watters a memoir writing contest winner. It will leave you smiling and marking your calendar for next February 2.

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Memoir Book Review: Wheels of Change by Sue Macy

by Matilda ButlerMarch 2, 2011
Memoir Book Review: Wheels of Change by Sue MacyMemoir Book Review: Wheels of Change by Sue Macy

A look at National Geographics new book by Sue Macy: Wheels of Change. See how much information can be presented in a fascinating way.

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Memoir Writing Prompts: Don’t Take Your Garbage with You

by Matilda ButlerMarch 1, 2011
Memoir Writing Prompts: Don’t Take Your Garbage with You

Post #78 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler Memoir Writing: A Case of Too Much Garbage As many of you know, we have moved from California to Oregon just before Thanksgiving last year. The final days of packing were the usual hectic scene. We were packing certain items, such as […]

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Editors on Editing: Discipline for Spring Writing

by Matilda ButlerFebruary 28, 2011
Editors on Editing: Discipline for Spring Writing

Mary K. Swanson, memoir editor, shares her thinking on using the energy of springtime writing.

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