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Writing Tip: Advice on Finding the Start of Your Story from Elmore Leonard

by Matilda ButlerJune 28, 2010
Writing Tip: Advice on Finding the Start of Your Story from Elmore Leonard

In anticipation of our new book, Writing Alchemy, Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler are creating a series of writing tips called: Writing in Five. These videos cover many topics about writing from well-known authors. This time Elmore Leonard is our inspiration and the source of our writing tips on finding the start of your story.

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Writing Alchemy – How Many Masks Are On Your Desk?

by Matilda ButlerJune 9, 2010
Writing Alchemy – How Many Masks Are On Your Desk?

What are you not the “I” in your memoir? How do you let others in your memoir speak as themselves rather than just a slightly different version of you? This week’s Writing in Five video is designed to get you thinking about this topic in order to make your writing more authentic.

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What’s the Most Important Aspect of Your Writing Process?

by Kendra BonnettMay 31, 2010
What’s the Most Important Aspect of Your Writing Process?

So what is the most important aspect of the writing process? You tell us. Answer our quick, easy (one question) survey. Pick the answer you think best captures the most important aspect of YOUR writing process. Or post a Comment with your own answer.

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Writing in Five: Brenda Ueland on Creating Universals Through Particulars

by Matilda ButlerMarch 29, 2010
Writing in Five: Brenda Ueland on Creating Universals Through Particulars

Writing Alchemy: Quick Tip #4. We draw on Brenda Ueland’s book about writing for this quick writing tip. Whether crafting fiction or memoir, there is a tension between universal themes and specific instances. Ueland’s book highlights how the carefully developed details enables the reader to see the universals.

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Writing in Five: Rita Mae Brown on Verbs

by Matilda ButlerMarch 14, 2010
Writing in Five: Rita Mae Brown on Verbs

Writing Alchemy – Join Matilda and Kendra for another audio in their series called Writing in Five. Their brief, five-minute audios provide writing tips from well-known writers. Today, they talk about Rita Mae Brown’s take on verbs.

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Memoir Guest Blog and Writing Prompt: Judy Mandel Discusses the Challenges When the Story Is Not Forthcoming

by Kendra BonnettFebruary 16, 2010
Memoir Guest Blog and Writing Prompt: Judy Mandel Discusses the Challenges When the Story Is Not Forthcoming

Judy Mandel, author of “Replacement Child,” shares a family tragedy that took place almost two years before she was born. Judy’s storytelling is so powerful, you feel as though you were a witness on that fateful day in 1952. But that’s only half of this story: Judy weaves her story as the replacement child for sister Donna lost in the crash–her own life unfolding in between chapters that bring us ever closer to the tragic accident. This memoir is dramatically and rtfully told.

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Memoir Book Review – The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr

by Tracy Kauffman WoodFebruary 3, 2010
Memoir Book Review – The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr

Memoir Book Review: Tracy Kauffman Wood brings to life the poet’s strength of words in Mary Karr’s first memoir, Liar’s Club. See how you can focus on words to elevate your writing.

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