Lists for Writers: 10 Tips for Putting Twitter to Work

by Kendra BonnettOctober 17, 2010
Lists for Writers: 10 Tips for Putting Twitter to Work

If you are blogging and want to increase your exposure and attract more readers, or if you’ve just been curious about microblogging, Kendra has put together a list of resources to help you get started with Twitter. This is a powerful and oft-misunderstood tool. Now is the time to learn more and get started tweeting.

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Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Susan Griffin

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 16, 2010
Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Susan Griffin

As a journal writer and memoirist, I sometimes struggle with the idea that my stories don’t matter. But Susan Griffin — poet, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter — said of writing about one’s own life: “It is only when one writes about the most intimate and seemingly idiosyncratic details that one touches others.”

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Use Your Words to Nominate a Special Person for the Second Mile Award

by Kendra BonnettOctober 15, 2010
Use Your Words to Nominate a Special Person for the Second Mile Award

Do you know a very special Elder? Use your writing skills to honor that person by entering Janet Riehl’s Second Mile Award competition. Janet has created the award to honor her 95 year old father; you can enter to honor a special person in your life.

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ScrapMoir How To #20: Writing Life’s Sensations in Scrapbooking and Memoir

by Bettyann SchmidtOctober 14, 2010
ScrapMoir How To #20: Writing Life’s Sensations in Scrapbooking and Memoir

Bettyann Schmidt looks in the compost heap of her life and extracts some of the memories (and the name) that makes her the personal she is today.

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A Call for Writers: Large Online Magazine Offers You Publishing, Publicity and Platform Building Opportunities

by Kendra BonnettOctober 10, 2010
A Call for Writers: Large Online Magazine Offers You Publishing, Publicity and Platform Building OpportunitiesA Call for Writers: Large Online Magazine Offers You Publishing, Publicity and Platform Building Opportunities

An important call for writers: Build your visibility among women readers (ages 20-60) by writing for DivorcedWomenOnline.com. This fast-growing e-magazine is an outlet for a wide range of articles and will help you get your work noticed…key if you’re looking for an agent or publisher for your memoir.

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Setting the Scene

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 9, 2010
Journal Writing for Memoir: Setting the Scene

If one of the reasons you journal is to capture significant events and memories for future memoir writing (or if you just want to capture the memories as fully as possible), you’ll want to do more than just write about what happened. You’ll want to go beyond recording the emotional impact to describing the environment — the scene — in which an event occurs.

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Lists for Writers: 10 Tips for Writing Your Memoir

by Kendra BonnettOctober 8, 2010
Lists for Writers: 10 Tips for Writing Your Memoir

Kendra has scoured the Internet to put together this list of writing tips for the aspiring memoir writers among our readers here on Women’s Memoirs.

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