by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 23, 2010
In my last post, I wrote about using art and photography to inspire journal writing. For a completely different reason, snapshots also serve well as prompts for your journal and memoir writing. The prompts will vary, depending upon the subject of your picture. Pictures of people will trigger different memories and feelings than of events and, say, pictures of nature.
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by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 16, 2010
As a journal writer and memoirist, I sometimes struggle with the idea that my stories don’t matter. But Susan Griffin — poet, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter — said of writing about one’s own life: “It is only when one writes about the most intimate and seemingly idiosyncratic details that one touches others.”
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