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Memoir Writing Prompts: Three Views of Memoir and Truth, Part 3

by Matilda ButlerMay 17, 2011
Memoir Writing Prompts: Three Views of Memoir and Truth, Part 3

Matilda Butler discusses a third view of memoir and truth that causes us to consider the distinction between factual and emotional truths. Try these writing prompts and see if they help you dig more deeply into the emotions associated with your memoir.

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Memoir Writing Contest: The 1958 Christmas Tree by Mary Edge

by Matilda ButlerMay 12, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: The 1958 Christmas Tree by Mary Edge

Mary Edge shares her award-winning memoir vignette (Favorite Holiday Contest), a story about a special Christmas tree. It will take you back to simpler times and family joys.

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Memoir Writing Tip: More on Develop Your Characters, An Interview with Martha Engber

by Matilda ButlerMay 10, 2011
Memoir Writing Tip: More on Develop Your Characters, An Interview with Martha Engber

Martha Engber, author of Growing Great Characters from the Ground Up, share two additional problems that memoir writers encounter with the people in their stories and provides a solution to each. She concludes with her Character Bill of Rights.

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Memoir Writing Tip: Develop Your Characters, An Interview with Martha Engber

by Matilda ButlerMay 9, 2011
Memoir Writing Tip: Develop Your Characters, An Interview with Martha Engber

Martha Engber, author of Growing Great Characters from the Ground Up shares two classic problems memoir writers have when writing about characters — and provides helpful solutions.

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Memoir Writing Prompts: Three Views of Memoir and Truth, Part 2

by Matilda ButlerMay 3, 2011
Memoir Writing Prompts: Three Views of Memoir and Truth, Part 2

Post #87 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler Memoir Writing Prompts: A Second View of Memoir and Truth Today’s discussion of memoir and truth picks up where we left off last week. This is a second aspect of truth in memoir writing. “There’s been a fire through here,” my partner […]

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Writing and Healing: Secrets of Silence

by Pamela JaneMay 1, 2011
Writing and Healing: Secrets of Silence

In a time when technology bombards us with noise, Pamela Jane Bell shows us how silence can be used as an element of healing and how silence and writing allow us to discover the pathway to healing.

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Memoir Writing Contest: Mother Saves the Day by Constance Blasjo Doty

by Matilda ButlerApril 28, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: Mother Saves the Day by Constance Blasjo Doty

Constance Blasjo Doty’s memoir vignette shows us how a detailed memory of an ordinary day becomes an extraordinary story.

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