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Writing in Five: Brenda Ueland on Creating Universals Through Particulars

by Matilda ButlerMarch 29, 2010
Writing in Five: Brenda Ueland on Creating Universals Through Particulars

Writing Alchemy: Quick Tip #4. We draw on Brenda Ueland’s book about writing for this quick writing tip. Whether crafting fiction or memoir, there is a tension between universal themes and specific instances. Ueland’s book highlights how the carefully developed details enables the reader to see the universals.

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500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #15 and Words, Part 1

by Promptly PortlandJanuary 19, 2010
500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #15 and Words, Part 1

Writing Prompt: Promptly Portland is back. This time with the first is a brief series about WORDS. Try the exercise and see if you gain a new perspective on your choice of words.

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500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #10

by Promptly PortlandNovember 30, 2009
500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #10

Promptly Portland gives us a writing prompt challenge and lets us think about our lives in a new way.

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500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #9

by Promptly PortlandNovember 24, 2009
500 Words (Or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #9

Promptly Portland puts us in the mood for Thanksgiving with this memoir writing prompt that focuses us on a real and an imagined scene of gratitude.

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500 Words (or More): Writing Prompt #8 – Your Path

by Promptly PortlandNovember 15, 2009
500 Words (or More): Writing Prompt #8 – Your Path

Writing Prompt. Promptly Portland shares a bit of her life story and provides a memoir writing prompt to get you thinking about the types of trails you have followed in your life.

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“The Possibility of Everything” Memoirist Hope Edelman Writes About What NOT To Publish in Her Guest Blog and Writing Prompt for Women’s Memoirs

by Kendra BonnettSeptember 8, 2009
“The Possibility of Everything” Memoirist Hope Edelman Writes About What NOT To Publish in Her Guest Blog and Writing Prompt for Women’s Memoirs

Writers, regardless the genre, will find our guest blogger Hope Edelman’s writing advice something to take to heart. In celebration of her new memoir “The Possibility of Everything,” she shares her Post-It technique for keeping herself on topic and out of the quagmire of off-point detail.

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Book Review of Happily Ever After Divorce

by Matilda ButlerJuly 1, 2009
Book Review of Happily Ever After Divorce

We review Jessica Bram’s memoir called Happily Ever After Divorce: Notes of a Joyful Journey. In addition to sharing some of our favorite passages, we discuss how Bram found the message for the reader in the mess of her life. Be sure to read what you will gain from this memoir.

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