Post #10 – Women’s Memoirs, Editors on Editing – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
[As you may know, Kendra and I are the Co-Coordinators for Story Circle Network’s Editorial Service that gives you easy access to a team of professional editors. These editors have been selected both for their skill level and because they are attuned to the stories women write — memoirs as well as fiction. Your memoir manuscript is important and deserves respect…the best treatment…and an editor who understands you. That’s why SCN Editorial Service exists. When you’re ready for an editor, we’re ready for you. Not a member of SCN? Don’t worry. Contact us anyway and we’ll help you locate one of SCN’s editors who can help you with your article or manuscript. Think you aren’t up to writing your memoir and want someone to interview you for your stories and then write them for you? Again, let us know as we have editors who can work with you in different capacities to ensure that your stories are told.
From time to time, we ask an SCN Editor to provide you an insight based on her experiences both as an editor and as a writer. Today, Roseanne Rini shares some of her experiences as she begins working on her own memoir. This is the continuation of her blog post on Story Circle Network’s Telling HerStories blog. Here’s the link to that post.
–Matilda]
Writing My Memoir: One Vignette at a Time, Part 2 — Finding My Theme
Roseanne Rini
In Part I of this post on memoir writing, I discuss following one’s impulse to write about whatever one remembers without concern for organization. I would like to provide two excerpts from my own writing to show how I am discovering, through this process, a major theme of my memoir.
(For space concerns I’ve included abbreviated pieces.)
Memoir Vignette: Pane (Bread)
In my mother’s day, a woman’s skill in the kitchen gave her power [click to continue…]
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