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Celebrate Writing–NaNoWriMo, National Lifewriting Month, the National...
Writing in November! What a great month for writers! We writers are being invited from all kinds of sites, programs, blogs, and presentations to attend to our writing this month! Get this: it’s...
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Character, Setting and Weather in your Memoir | Creating a World in Your Story
As writers, we all know that writing a memoir, a long full length story, pushes us to think on several levels at once—it’s like rubbing your stomach while patting your head, doing a tap dance and a...
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‘Tis the Season—Collect Your Stories, Celebrate your Memoir
‘Tis the season of taking stock, setting new goals, and making plans—for the holidays, and for the New Year. Many memoir writers are getting serious about finalizing the first draft of their memoir,...
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Compassion and Love at Christmas
As I watch my grandchildren gather around the tree to inspect the packages, lifting, smelling, shaking each one, I think of how symbolic our celebration is at Christmas—the way that we offer gifts,...
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Exposure in Memoir Writing | How Much, and Who’s the Writing For?
Do you feel that memoir writing is like taking off your clothes in front of everyone? Being raw, exposed, and vulnerable on the page for all to see? According to Susan Shapiro, author of this NY...
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Second Chances–the New Edition of my Memoir Don’t Call Me Mother
Today I’m celebrating the official release of the new edition of my memoir Don’t Call Me Mother! There are few second chances in life, but in the world of artistic creation, you can rebirth a book,...
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Learn from Wild: Theme and Structure in Your Memoir
One of my students was complaining the other day about plotting, creating structure, outlining, and all that left brain stuff. “I miss my freewriting!” she said. We love the feeling when we are in...
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Your Memoir Journey—The Craft of writing a Memoir
Most people writing a memoir are learning to write while also excavating the terrain of memories and learning about elements of the past can be painful. If you have started your memoir, or are...
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March (ing) 4th! Thoughts about my Spiritual Holiday
It’s 1966, March 4th, and the snow is silently falling, whispering down onto the deserted University of Illinois campus at 8 AM on a Saturday. The moment captures me in its powerful silence, the...
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Book Promotion? Not Yet! I’m in the Middle of my Memoir
You may be in what I call the “Muddy Middle” of your memoir as you work your way through the stories, your turning points, the arc of your narrative, your plot, your memories and truths, but it’s not...
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What Happens after “The End” of your Memoir?
It’s one thing to write a first memoir—the journey is daunting, what is the plot, how will it end since my life is continuing? These questions are some of the challenges as we work on our first...
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Mother’s Day—A Hallmark Challenge | Linda Joy Myers
Mother’s Day is a day the unmothered, abused, or barely mothered among us would like to forget—but it’s hard to do with the world around us chiming in about mothers and flowers and how she’s your...
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The Open Window | Unexpected Forgiveness
This week in honor of Mother’s Day, I’m writing about forgiveness as I have experienced it. I know that it’s a controversial subject for many, as evidenced in the recent comments on my Huffington Post...
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Fathers
At first I was not going to write about Father’s Day, feeling again that my story was just sad and depressing, and who wants to hear it. Sound familiar? This is what I hear from my students all the...
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Quilting Your Memoir with Turning Points
When you write a memoir, you take on the task of exploring your life, and being willing to encounter yourself with truth and honesty. Some liken writing a memoir to a spiritual journey that leads us...
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Will My Family Get Angry about My Memoir?
Not every memoir writer worries about being on the outs with their family when they write a memoir, but it is something I hear countless writers discussing, and it often casts a shadow on their...
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Truth, Lie, Essential Truth—How to Figure out the Ethics of Your Memoir
When we talk about “essential Truth” what do we mean as memoirists? How much room do we have to create scenes, dialogue, and “characters” from the flotsam of memories? What are the “rules” of memoir...
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It’s August! Nine Tips for Your Memoir Journey
In the process of writing a memoir, my students eventually find themselves in the middle of a journey, experiencing exactly what confronts us when we’re on a vacation or a trip. There are several...
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Poetry and Art–Early Memoir Snapshots
To write a memoir is to embark on a long journey of the imagination and of memory. My path of gathering memories, images, and stories was first through autobiographical art–through painting,...
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Free Books Today! Download from Kindle–and Read On To Learn About Your...
Today I’m giving away my two books for Free! Yes, through the KDP program in Amazon. I’m jazzed about doing this, and ask you to please download my books, completely for FREE! And I want to tell you...
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