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What’s the Most Important Aspect of Your Writing Process?

by Kendra BonnettMay 31, 2010
What’s the Most Important Aspect of Your Writing Process?

So what is the most important aspect of the writing process? You tell us. Answer our quick, easy (one question) survey. Pick the answer you think best captures the most important aspect of YOUR writing process. Or post a Comment with your own answer.

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Writing in Five: Stephen King on Adverbs

by Matilda ButlerMarch 14, 2010
Writing in Five: Stephen King on Adverbs

Writing Alchemy. Matilda and Kendra begin their blog about Writing Alchemy, their in-progress book, with a series of five minute audios, each drawing its wisdom from well-known writers who have written about writing. Each audio provides a quick writing tip.

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Memoir Guest Blog and Writing Prompt: Linda Joy Myers Discusses the Power of Memoir

by Kendra BonnettMarch 2, 2010
Memoir Guest Blog and Writing Prompt: Linda Joy Myers Discusses the Power of Memoir

As part of our Author Conversations series, author/therapist Linda Joy Myers posts her guest blog on Women’s Memoirs. She discusses the power of memoir as a healing tool. On Friday, Matilda and Kendra interview Linda Joy on the subject of her new book “The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story.”

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Memoir Book Review–Your Memoirs by Hawley Roddick

by Kendra BonnettJanuary 20, 2010
Memoir Book Review–Your Memoirs by Hawley Roddick

Here’s a memoir writing how-to that will focus your thinking, entertain with examples and help you limber up your style and technique. Think of “Your Memoirs” by Hawley Roddick as mental calisthenics.

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500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #14 and Whales

by Promptly PortlandJanuary 5, 2010
500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #14 and Whales

Promptly Portland gets us writing with this somewhat modified real story of a whale and her rescue. Not tuned to animals? Promptly has a second exercise that focuses on people who help us when we get tangled in life’s web.

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ScrapMoir How To #1 – Memoir Writing with Pictures

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 24, 2009
ScrapMoir How To #1 – Memoir Writing with Pictures

ScrapMoirs – Join Bettyann Schmidt, our new guest blogger, as she talks about combining the best of memoir writing with the best practices in scrapbooking.

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Book Review of Daddy’s Girl by Charlotte Vale-Allen

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 16, 2009
Book Review of Daddy’s Girl by Charlotte Vale-Allen

Guest reviewer, Michelle Rockwell, tells us about Charlotte Vale-Allen’s memoir, Daddy’s Girl, helps us to see how a memoir can make a major difference in a reader’s life, and highlights an approach to memoir writing that avoids causing a tragic story to become a pity party.

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