Blah, Blah, Blah and Your Memoir Writing

by Matilda ButlerApril 21, 2015
Blah, Blah, Blah and Your Memoir Writing

Three writing tips and three memoir writing prompts to ensure you don’t have a blah memoir.

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A Visual Memoir Writing Prompt

by Matilda ButlerApril 14, 2015
A Visual Memoir Writing Prompt

Want a new writing prompt that will help you break out of the boundaries you’ve been putting around your writing? Then check out this blog.

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Crafting Distinctive Characters in Your Memoir

by Matilda ButlerApril 7, 2015
Crafting Distinctive Characters in Your Memoir

Matilda Butler presents a new way to think about how you write other characters in your memoir.

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5 Memoir Tips: Writing About Your Past Influences Your Future

by Matilda ButlerMarch 31, 2015
5 Memoir Tips: Writing About Your Past Influences Your Future

Memoir writing lets you avoid the unexamined life.

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An Intriguing View of Memoir Via Fiction

by Matilda ButlerMarch 24, 2015
An Intriguing View of Memoir Via Fiction

Matilda Butler discusses how Vicki Delany’s Burden of Memory is like reading an insiders account of ghosting a memoir. Lots to be learned for writing your own memoir.

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Memoir Writers: Remember Family Rules; Create New Rules

by Matilda ButlerMarch 17, 2015
Memoir Writers: Remember Family Rules; Create New Rules

Matilda Butler shares a new perspective on lists of rules — great as a writing prompt and just as good for planning your life.

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Your Memoir: Four Things Not to Write and One Thing Not to Leave Out!

by Pamela JaneMarch 10, 2015
Your Memoir: Four Things Not to Write and One Thing Not to Leave Out!

Post #13 – Women’s Memoirs, Editors on Editing – Matilda Butler and Pamela Jane Bell Tips for Writing Your Memoir Late last year, Pamela Jane Bell and I teamed up to create the First Editing Service (FES). As she edits the manuscripts of her own clients as well as the FES clients, she reflects on […]

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