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Memoir Writing Tip: The Brain and Relationships

by Matilda ButlerNovember 16, 2011
Memoir Writing Tip: The Brain and Relationships

Today’s memoir writing tip focuses on emotional scripts from childhood that were created during interaction with our siblings. Do these scripts still influence you?

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Memoir Writing Prompt: A Favorite Memory Recalled

by Matilda ButlerNovember 14, 2011
Memoir Writing Prompt: A Favorite Memory Recalled

What’s your favorite memory? Linda Greeley shared hers with us — written after reading one of our writing prompts. Let her story inspire you to do some of your own storytelling.

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Writing and Healing: Coping with Emotions by Katherine Mayfield

by Matilda ButlerNovember 13, 2011
Writing and Healing: Coping with Emotions by Katherine Mayfield

Katherine Mayfield helps us understand the role of expressing emotions in our writing and how to cope with the full range of emotions that will surface during memoir writing.

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Journal Writing for Memoir: The Character Journal

by Amber Lea StarfireNovember 12, 2011
Journal Writing for Memoir: The Character JournalJournal Writing for Memoir: The Character Journal

Post #50 Memoir Writing, Journaling by Amber Lea Starfire – If you’re like most life-writers, you struggle with how to portray real characters on the pages of your memoir. Maybe you received feedback that your readers are having difficulty “seeing” the people on your pages. After all, how do you make Great Aunt Jane, with […]

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Storytelling: Even Leaders Know Its Value

by Matilda ButlerNovember 11, 2011
Storytelling: Even Leaders Know Its ValueStorytelling: Even Leaders Know Its Value

Storytelling is another word for the practice of memoir. Today we share how leaders take advantage of storytelling and how that directly relates to what memoir writers need to do.

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Memoir Writing Contest: I Called Her Mom by Cindy Wilber

by Matilda ButlerNovember 10, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: I Called Her Mom by Cindy Wilber

Women’s Memoirs is pleased to publish the last memoir contest winning entry in our All About Mothers contest. We hope you enjoy Cindy Wilber’s story. Be sure to leave her a note in the Comment section.

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Memoir Movie Review: “The Help” Reviewed by Diana Paul

by Matilda ButlerNovember 9, 2011
Memoir Movie Review: “The Help” Reviewed by Diana Paul

Have you see the newly released movie “The Help?” Ever wondered what it would mean if this were a memoir? Diana Paul reviews the movie and invites your comments.

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