ScrapMoir How To #12: Words for Memoirs and Scrapbooking

by Bettyann SchmidtApril 15, 2010
ScrapMoir How To #12: Words for Memoirs and Scrapbooking

Guest blogger Bettyann Schmidt returns with great advice on capturing and using the beloved phrases and words of family members and friends. She even keeps a word box so she won’t forget the special ones that bring not only joy and remembrances, but also capture part of the essence of the person.

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Writing in Five: Anne Lamott on Starting Small

by Kendra BonnettApril 14, 2010
Writing in Five: Anne Lamott on Starting Small

For Writing in Five Quick Tips: Anne Lamott tells us that we need to go deep and provide as much detail as possible. We need to write all we can, and to get started on your huge writing project start small. Start with a short assignment, than another one, and another one, and so on.

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Writing Prompt: Turning Tax Time into a Fun Prompt

by Matilda ButlerApril 13, 2010
Writing Prompt: Turning Tax Time into a Fun Prompt

Writing Prompt: Matilda has come up with a once a year kind of idea — turning tax time into a writing prompt. She’s been eager to post this for weeks. Hope you enjoy it and that it brings stories to mind and pen.

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Food Memoir Contest Award Winners – First Place Story and Recipe

by Matilda ButlerApril 7, 2010
Food Memoir Contest Award Winners – First Place Story and Recipe

March Memoir Writing Contest winners announced. In addition to contest winners, including the two tied for first place, you’ll find the treat of the first of these stories, complete with recipe and photos. Hope you’ll be inspired to write your own food memoir vignette and submit it for our April 2010 Memoir Contest.

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Book Review of Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis by Amy Ferris

by Kendra BonnettApril 7, 2010
Book Review of Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis by Amy Ferris

In her memoir Marrying George Clooney, Amy Ferris comes to a point of peace and understanding about her relationship with her mother. Ferris finds the humor in life as she deals with raging hormones, in the full throes of menopause, and her 88-year-old mother disappears into dementia. The result is a bittersweet, often raw and outrageously candid, look at mothers and daughters.

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Writing Prompt: Who Owns the Story, Part 1

by Matilda ButlerApril 6, 2010
Writing Prompt: Who Owns the Story, Part 1

Writing Prompt: Janet Riehl and Stephanie Farrow bring you the first of a two part article about ownership of our stories. Then they give you three writing prompts to get you thinking and writing.

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Crafting the Memoir Opening: Advice from Linda Joy Myers

by Matilda ButlerApril 5, 2010
Crafting the Memoir Opening: Advice from Linda Joy Myers

Interview with Linda Joy Myers highlights her two take-aways: (1) Play with you opening and (2) Finish your memoir then write your beginning. Listen to this 5 minute audio as Linda Joy shares her thoughts on crafting the opening to your memoir.

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