Memoir Writing Tip: Don’t Forget Time and Place

by Matilda ButlerOctober 10, 2011
Memoir Writing Tip: Don’t Forget Time and Place

Memoir Writing Tip on using public events when sharing your personal story.

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Writing and Healing: Dignity Therapy — Not Just for the Dying

by Sharon LippincottOctober 9, 2011
Writing and Healing: Dignity Therapy — Not Just for the Dying

Post #26 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing and Healing – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler Explorations in Writing and Healing for Memoir Writers Sharon Lippincott regularly highlights how life writing, especially memoir, is a well-documented healing process. Her discussions never fail to bring new ideas to us. Today, we invite you to read her important article […]

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Mining Emotional Extremes

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 8, 2011
Journal Writing for Memoir: Mining Emotional ExtremesJournal Writing for Memoir: Mining Emotional Extremes

Post #49 Memoir Writing, Journaling by Amber Lea Starfire – Journals are a wonderful place—if not the place—to express emotions that cannot or should not be expressed elsewhere. On those pages, we attempt to put into words all the energy we feel about things happening in our lives. One day, we soar with love that […]

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Memoir Contest Winner: Cut the Cake by Deborah Gilson

by Matilda ButlerOctober 6, 2011
Memoir Contest Winner: Cut the Cake by Deborah Gilson

Join us in congratulating Deborah Gilson for her award-winning story reflecting back 46 years to her fifth birthday. We’re sure it will evoke memories from your past.

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Memoir Book Review: Laura Furman’s The Mother Who Stayed: Stories, Reviewed by Lanie Tankard

by Matilda ButlerOctober 5, 2011
Memoir Book Review: Laura Furman’s The Mother Who Stayed: Stories, Reviewed by Lanie Tankard

Post #62 – Women’s Memoirs, Author Conversations – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler The Mother Who Stayed: Stories by Laura Furman Reviewed by Lanie Tankard “History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction.” —Amy Waldman “Truth in Imagined Things” Wall Street Journal Memoir Writing as Meditation: The […]

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Memoir Writing Prompt: Getting Framed

by Matilda ButlerOctober 4, 2011
Memoir Writing Prompt: Getting Framed

Memoir writing needs to be framed. Here are some thoughts on the topic inspired by a visit to Portland’s Lan Su Chinese Garden.

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Memoir Writers: Have Fun and Increase Your Creativity

by Matilda ButlerOctober 3, 2011
Memoir Writers: Have Fun and Increase Your Creativity

Do you sometimes feel like your creativity has dried up? Today’s article suggests how to get your creative juices flowing again.

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