500 Words (or More): Writing Prompt #4

by Promptly PortlandSeptember 15, 2009
500 Words (or More): Writing Prompt #4

500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #4 helps you focus on life decisions.

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Interview with Bestselling Author Hope Edelman Provides Insights into Writing Memoir Openings and Using the Best of Non-Fiction Techniques

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 14, 2009
Interview with Bestselling Author Hope Edelman Provides Insights into Writing Memoir Openings and Using the Best of Non-Fiction Techniques

Interview with Hope Edelman, author of the bestseller Motherless Daughters, provides an important discussion of memoir openings and the use of creative non-fiction for memoirists. Join us as we talk with Hope about her new memoir: The Possibility of Everything.

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KitchenScraps – Mom’s Upstairs One-Egg Cake by Bettyann Schmidt

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 10, 2009
KitchenScraps – Mom’s Upstairs One-Egg Cake by Bettyann Schmidt

KitchenScrap: BettyAnn Schmidt shares family memories and her mother’s recipe for burnt-sugar icing. Go back in time to the 1940s with her.

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Book Review of War Orphan in San Francisco by Phyllis Helene Mattson

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 9, 2009
Book Review of War Orphan in San Francisco by Phyllis Helene Mattson

Explore author Phyllis Mattson’s memoir, War Orphan in San Francisco, to consider your voice. How close or how far do you need to be to tell your story? What types of source documents do you have? How will you use them?

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“The Possibility of Everything” Memoirist Hope Edelman Writes About What NOT To Publish in Her Guest Blog and Writing Prompt for Women’s Memoirs

by Kendra BonnettSeptember 8, 2009
“The Possibility of Everything” Memoirist Hope Edelman Writes About What NOT To Publish in Her Guest Blog and Writing Prompt for Women’s Memoirs

Writers, regardless the genre, will find our guest blogger Hope Edelman’s writing advice something to take to heart. In celebration of her new memoir “The Possibility of Everything,” she shares her Post-It technique for keeping herself on topic and out of the quagmire of off-point detail.

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KitchenScraps – A Life Recipe: Turning a Negative into a Positive by Gale Henshel

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 3, 2009
KitchenScraps – A Life Recipe: Turning a Negative into a Positive by Gale Henshel

Gale Henshel shares her Recipe for Life along with George Washington’s favorite cookie recipe (Jumbles) and Champagne Poached Trout recipe from her cookbook. Writing has always been hard for Gale who is dyslexic and her success with words is a personal triumph. We think you’ll appreciate her Recipe for Life once you read her story.

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Book Review of Dancing in My Nightgown: The Rhythms of Widowhood by Betty Auchard

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 2, 2009
Book Review of Dancing in My Nightgown: The Rhythms of Widowhood by Betty Auchard

Author Betty Auchard begins writing after her husband’s death from cancer. Little by little, she finds the writing is an important part of the healing process. How will writing your memoir change your life?

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