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Memoir Writing Prompts: Don’t Take Your Garbage with You

by Matilda ButlerMarch 1, 2011
Memoir Writing Prompts: Don’t Take Your Garbage with You

Post #78 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler Memoir Writing: A Case of Too Much Garbage As many of you know, we have moved from California to Oregon just before Thanksgiving last year. The final days of packing were the usual hectic scene. We were packing certain items, such as […]

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Editors on Editing: Discipline for Spring Writing

by Matilda ButlerFebruary 28, 2011
Editors on Editing: Discipline for Spring Writing

Mary K. Swanson, memoir editor, shares her thinking on using the energy of springtime writing.

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Writing and Healing: Writing with Feeling Feels Good

by Sharon LippincottFebruary 27, 2011
Writing and Healing: Writing with Feeling Feels Good

It will come as no surprise to most memoirists or veteran journalers to hear that writing with blazing honesty about our deepest thoughts and emotions makes us feel better. Why else would we persist? What may not be so obvious is that this same writing that soothes and satisfies souls, pulls thorns from psyches, and calms turbulent relationships may also improve our physical health.

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Memoir Writing Contest Reminder and a Story

by Matilda ButlerFebruary 23, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest Reminder and a Story

Two news items: (1) Next memoir writing contest ends February 28. (2) Publication of Gale Henshel’s story about going to court.

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Memoir Writing Prompts: The Return — Or, More on Matilda’s New Life Adventure

by Matilda ButlerFebruary 22, 2011
Memoir Writing Prompts: The Return — Or, More on Matilda’s New Life Adventure

Matilda Butler shares another segment from her new life adventure and turns it into a memoir writing prompt.

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Editors on Editing: Respect Your Art

by Matilda ButlerFebruary 21, 2011
Editors on Editing: Respect Your Art

Memoir editor, Kim Pearson, shares her story about the need to respect one’s art — and yes, memoir is art.

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Were Your Born During World War II? If so…

by Matilda ButlerFebruary 20, 2011
Were Your Born During World War II? If so…

Born during World War II? If so, we’d like to hear from you. We are continuing our research on the generation we call Rosie’s Daughters — a generation born between 1940 and 1945.

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