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Memoir Book Review: When Women First Wore Army Shoes by Ethel A. Starbird

by Matilda ButlerOctober 27, 2010
Memoir Book Review: When Women First Wore Army Shoes by Ethel A. StarbirdMemoir Book Review: When Women First Wore Army Shoes by Ethel A. Starbird

Post #65 – Women’s Memoirs, Book Raves – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler Today’s book review is a look at both a memoir and a Rosie the Riveter, military style. Victoria Selfridge contacted me about a family memoir, When Women First Wore Army Shoes. Her aunt, Ethel A. Starbird served as a member of the […]

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Memoir-Writing-Prompt Video: Postcards from Hawaii #2

by Matilda ButlerOctober 26, 2010
Memoir-Writing-Prompt Video: Postcards from Hawaii #2

A second memoir writing prompt in our video series — Postcards from Hawaii. This short video will give you a new way to write about yourself and others. Be sure to check out this memoir writing tip.

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Journal Writing Sense: Snapshots as Writing Prompts

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 23, 2010
Journal Writing Sense: Snapshots as Writing Prompts

In my last post, I wrote about using art and photography to inspire journal writing. For a completely different reason, snapshots also serve well as prompts for your journal and memoir writing. The prompts will vary, depending upon the subject of your picture. Pictures of people will trigger different memories and feelings than of events and, say, pictures of nature.

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Last Chance to Enter: Memoir Contest Ends October 31

by Matilda ButlerOctober 22, 2010
Last Chance to Enter: Memoir Contest Ends October 31

News Flash: Memoir writing contest ends October 31. Be sure to enter with your favorite holiday story (any holiday) and associated recipe.

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ScrapMoir How To #21: Recognizing Your Life’s Teachers in Scrapbooks and Memoirs, Part 1

by Bettyann SchmidtOctober 21, 2010
ScrapMoir How To #21: Recognizing Your Life’s Teachers in Scrapbooks and Memoirs, Part 1

Bettyann Schmidt returns with a scrapbooking how to that helps you document your life teachers — the ones who gave you just what you needed to learn in order to move on in life.

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Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Susan Griffin

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 16, 2010
Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Susan Griffin

As a journal writer and memoirist, I sometimes struggle with the idea that my stories don’t matter. But Susan Griffin — poet, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter — said of writing about one’s own life: “It is only when one writes about the most intimate and seemingly idiosyncratic details that one touches others.”

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Use Your Words to Nominate a Special Person for the Second Mile Award

by Kendra BonnettOctober 15, 2010
Use Your Words to Nominate a Special Person for the Second Mile Award

Do you know a very special Elder? Use your writing skills to honor that person by entering Janet Riehl’s Second Mile Award competition. Janet has created the award to honor her 95 year old father; you can enter to honor a special person in your life.

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