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Writing Alone, Writing Together: Lessons from Self-Styled RetreatsBy Samuel Autman A year into my first adjunct teaching position, I was in my early 40s and had completed an MFA in nonfiction...
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Memory Matters—But to Whom?Photo of Unlucky-Economist347’s grandmother and mother in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s. (photo from Reddit) By Allison K...
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Great Beginnings: Inviting the Reader to EnterBy Ronnie Blair Writing an essay about great beginnings is intimidating because readers expect you to start the essay with a great...
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“You want me to do what?” Audio Memoir at HomeBy Charlotte Wilkins “Not that !” I squawked at the acceptance email from “Dorothy Parker’s Ashes’” informing me my essay would...
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How “Fast Car” Taught Me to Trust My StoryBy Vicki Mayk A decade ago, an agent read the memoir about my daughter that I had labored over in my MFA program. After extolling...
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What’s the Point of Writing?By Sarah Carson What’s the point of writing , anyway ? a lady asks the table. Four weeks of workshops in the library...
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I’m a Developmental Editor – These are the Five Biggest Issues I See in Memoir DraftsBy Katie Bannon As a developmental editor, I have read hundreds of memoir manuscripts, in addition to revising my own. Every...
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Wait—Did That Really Happen?By Amy Roost “Nothing has really happened until it has been described.” ~Virginia Woolf Surely everyone knows the...
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The Craft of Chewy WordsBy Jamie Etheridge In the beginning, was the word. Slurp . Two syllables. Sounds like it is written. Onomatopoeic....
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Google Gets MeBy Sonya Ewan I believe we should not ignore or dismiss our fears of the writing, but, rather, befriend those fears. – Jeannine...
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From Page to Stage—Angst to Bliss in < 48 HoursBy Bella Mahaya Carter My chest tightened as I listened to fellow cast members perform their stories two days before the show....
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Gentling the Wild Beast: Imagery as a Path to Grief WritingBy Helene Kiser In my husband’s dream about a month before he died, he saw me seated at a table in a funky bookstore, a steaming...
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My Tender, Tender Writer’s SkinBy Mary Hannah Terzino “I feel as if I am walking on eggshells with your writing,” one of my closest friends texted. She’d just...
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In a Book I Haven’t Read, I Found Permission to WriteBy Jen Gilman Porat Recently, my newsfeed featured a link to an article from The New Yorker, “Can a Memoir Say Too Much?” Instead...
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How an Old Blog Pulled Me Out of My Writing SlumpBy Nikki Campo The first time I wrote a blog post in 2011, I had to laugh. Me? A business person with no writing credentials...
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A Place for AI in Your Writing: Book ProposalsBy Ann Kathryn Kelly How many writers out there love writing book proposals? Show of hands, please. Just as I suspected. I see...
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The Sto Po: A Hypothetical Rant Against the Knee Jerk Content ConstabularyBy Marjie Alonso Recently I posted to a Facebook group for fellow writers: Would anyone be willing to be a beta reader and...
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-FightingLee Gutkind, founder of Creative Nonfiction magazine, began promoting the genre in the early 1990s, pushing for acceptance in both...
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How to Know If a Publisher is the Real Dealby Allison K Williams Today’s essay is a little different than our normal posts. I’ve seen a wave of new publishing scams recently, and...
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Vulnerability When Writing Memoir: The Expected and the UnexpectedBy Irene Stern Frielich I was sure I had thought it through. And in fact, I had. The problem was, I hadn’t felt it through....
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An Attempt at a Lyric Introduction to the Forthcoming Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a ChordThe essay that follows shamelessly rips off language from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ezra Pound, and William Wordsworth By Heidi Czerwiec...
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Astounded—Discovering More of My StoryBy Margaret S. Mandell Pay attention, wrote Mary Oliver. Be astounded / Tell about it. It had been months since I...
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The River of Story Always Flows ForwardBy Dinty W. Moore I have always recoiled at the idea that stories are written with a theme. The word “theme” seems retroactive,...
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Looking at an Eclipse: A Braided Essay About Braided EssaysBy Lilly Dancyger The first time I wrote a braided essay, I had no idea that was what I was doing. I’m not sure if I’d even heard...
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A Little Letter from an AI RebutterBy Rebecca Evans I am an AI Rebutter. I am a Long-Hand-Writer Endorser. I pen pages each morning in a journal, jot a list...
