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Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Susan Griffin

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 16, 2010
Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Susan Griffin

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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Use Your Words to Nominate a Special Person for the Second Mile Award

by Kendra BonnettOctober 15, 2010
Use Your Words to Nominate a Special Person for the Second Mile Award

Do you know a very special Elder? Use your writing skills to honor that person by entering Janet Riehl’s Second Mile Award competition. Janet has created the award to honor her 95 year old father; you can enter to honor a special person in your life.

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A Call for Writers: Large Online Magazine Offers You Publishing, Publicity and Platform Building Opportunities

by Kendra BonnettOctober 10, 2010
A Call for Writers: Large Online Magazine Offers You Publishing, Publicity and Platform Building OpportunitiesA Call for Writers: Large Online Magazine Offers You Publishing, Publicity and Platform Building Opportunities

An important call for writers: Build your visibility among women readers (ages 20-60) by writing for DivorcedWomenOnline.com. This fast-growing e-magazine is an outlet for a wide range of articles and will help you get your work noticed…key if you’re looking for an agent or publisher for your memoir.

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Setting the Scene

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 9, 2010
Journal Writing for Memoir: Setting the Scene

If one of the reasons you journal is to capture significant events and memories for future memoir writing (or if you just want to capture the memories as fully as possible), you’ll want to do more than just write about what happened. You’ll want to go beyond recording the emotional impact to describing the environment — the scene — in which an event occurs.

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One Memoir, One Video: Susan Parker’s Walking in the Deep End

by Matilda ButlerOctober 6, 2010
One Memoir, One Video: Susan Parker’s Walking in the Deep End

Women’s Memoirs revisits Susan Parker’s memoir Walking in the Deep End, sharing her list of Secrets of Resilient People and her video. Missed our previous review, interview, and guest blog? The article provides links.

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500 Words (or More) Memoir Writing Vignette #2 with “It’s Me, Maggie”

by Matilda ButlerOctober 5, 2010
500 Words (or More) Memoir Writing Vignette #2 with “It’s Me, Maggie”

Maggie Lamond Simone returns with another of her humorous takes on raising children. Reflect on the lesson she learned and then try our writing prompt about the lessons about parenting you learned from your parents.

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Memoir: Ann Armbrecht’s Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home Reviewed by Diana Y. Paul

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 29, 2010
Memoir: Ann Armbrecht’s Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home Reviewed by Diana Y. Paul

In Diana Y. Paul’s review of memoirist Ann Armbrecht’s Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home we see the influence of another culture on the anthropologist’s life during a time of a disintegrating marriage. The reviewer suggests a way for you to examine your own writing as you read this memoir.

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