writing and moods

Post #25 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing and Healing – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

Pamela Jane Bell always gives us something new to consider and today’s post is no exception. But more than just introducing her latest contribution, I wanted to let you know that her new children’s book is out in time for Halloween — Little Goblins Ten. If you have children or grandchildren you’ll want to check out this lovely, illustrated book that received a starred review by Kirkus and a review by Publishers Weekly that said, “In a gently spooky spin on “Over in the Meadow” that counts up to 10, various ghouls and beasts groan, swoop, and haunt. Jane has fun playing within the nursery rhyme’s parameters…”

On to today’s post for memoir writers…

Memoir Writing and Your Mood

by Pamela Jane Bell, guest blogger, children’s book author and currently writing her memoir

“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, without faith and without hope…suddenly the work will find itself.–“ Isak Dinesen

Jane Austen probably knew that her novels were works of genius even as she composed them. That may itself be a quality of genius. But how many of us have written something in state of mild euphoria, convinced that our writing was brilliant, only to find that it was deeply flawed, or readers didn’t respond the way we expected? Perhaps our mood betrayed us, or [click to continue…]

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