Overstory, Understory: Writing Prompt Worth Considering

by Matilda ButlerJune 24, 2014
Overstory, Understory: Writing Prompt Worth Considering

What’s your understory? Your overstory? Consider this new approach and then use the writing prompt to get you started.

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Memoir Review: Lanie Tankard Reviews … The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

by Matilda ButlerJune 18, 2014
Memoir Review: Lanie Tankard Reviews … The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

Lanie Tankard, our fabulous book reviewer, asks us to ponder the ways in which our memoirs can address larger and deeper issues. Such is the case in the book she reviews: The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison.

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Writing Prompt: Happy Birthday and Palm Trees

by Matilda ButlerJune 11, 2014
Writing Prompt: Happy Birthday and Palm Trees

Happy Birthday, Kendra. Help Kendra celebrate her birthday by writing your favorite birthday memoir story from a new angle. This writing prompt will give you a new angle.

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Writing Prompt: What Do You See and How Will You Describe?

by Matilda ButlerMay 24, 2014
Writing Prompt: What Do You See and How Will You Describe?

Women’s Memoirs provides writing prompts for memoir writers. Today’s writing prompt focuses on character description. Challenge yourself and see what you can develop that will enhance your storytelling.

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Rosie Stories: My Mother’s Crimson Lipstick, Part 2 by Angela Kempe

by Matilda ButlerMay 15, 2014
Rosie Stories: My Mother’s Crimson Lipstick, Part 2 by Angela Kempe

How do you write the story of a family member? Today’s author provides one example…telling the story as if spoken by her grandmother. This is the next in our series of Rosie Stories and we hope you enjoy it.

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Writing and Healing: 5 Outstanding – and Surprising – Self-Help Books for Memoir Writers

by Pamela JaneMay 6, 2014
Writing and Healing: 5 Outstanding – and Surprising – Self-Help Books for Memoir Writers

Pamela Jane Bell offers 5 books to get your writing and keep you writing your memoir. Her choices just may surprise you.

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Rosie Stories: Life in the Dormitory, Part 2 by Barbarann Ayars

by Matilda ButlerApril 28, 2014
Rosie Stories: Life in the Dormitory, Part 2 by Barbarann Ayars

Join us for this two-part memoir told from the perspective of a four-year-old girl visiting her mother where she is a WOW, Women’s Ordnance Worker during World War II. We share half of Barbarann Ayers’s story here and the other half on RosiesDaughters. Links are included. Thinking of writing about your mother? This is one approach.

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