Category: How To and Tips
Ten Lessons about Writing Memoir that I Learned from Reading Memoirs
Ten Lessons about Writing Memoir that I Learned from Reading Memoirs Dian Seidel Memoirs never appealed to me much…until I accidentally started writing one. When a writing coach told me my short essays could be the basis for a memoir, I figured I’d better educate myself about the genre. So I read lots of memoirs, […]
Six Things I’ve Learned After Publishing My First Book
Six Things I’ve Learned After Publishing My First Book by Laura Whitfield I participated in my first literary festival last weekend as part of a panel about finding fun and taking risks. During the event the moderator asked, “What was fun about writing your book?” “I can’t say that writing my book was fun,” I […]
Five Truths on Technology, Creativity & the Power of Human Stories
By Kris Spisak A lot of headlines scream for our attention these days. Some caterwaul about how writers no longer have a place in the world. Others claim storytelling will be hijacked by modern technology. But here’s the truth rarely in the conversation: Creativity is the essence of humanity itself. It’s how we have survived. […]
My Writing Journey by KD Sherrinford
KD Sherrinford- My writing journey. A voracious reader from an early age. I became fascinated by the works of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I read the entire Sherlock Holmes Canon by the time I was 13. I was a shy, introverted child; always found in the library with my head in a […]
Facing The Blank Canvas: Have the Self Confidence to Tell Your Story
Facing The Blank Canvas: Have the Self Confidence to Tell Your Story In Henry James’ short story “The Madonna of the Future,” an older artist shows his visitor a blank canvas where the painting he has envisioned will one day materialize. “The elements are all here,” the artist says, pointing to his head. His excuse […]
Compassionate Caregiving and Writing By Suzanne Marriott
Compassionate Caregiving and Writing By Suzanne Marriott Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries, without them humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama XIV I remember the moment I realized I was going to be my husband’s caregiver forever. I knew Michael had multiple sclerosis, and I knew this would be a progressive disease. Yet, knowing something […]
How Self-Kindness Set My Creativity Free
How Self-Kindness Set My Creativity Free by Martha Engber I never knew the crippling burden of being unkind to myself until two years ago when I was 56. I’d just completed my forthcoming memoir, Bliss Road, about being the non-autistic daughter of an undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder dad. I’d spent the previous eight years wading […]
My Pathway to Self-Publishing by Marisa Jones
My Pathway to Self-Publishing by Marisa Jones It’s hard to believe I’m a published author. This week, my debut historical novel, A Dangerous Land, has been released to the world. What a surreal feeling. Something I never thought would come to pass. It certainly wasn’t an easy road to get here. For two years I […]
How Place Shapes Story
How Place Shapes Story Eudora Welty said, “One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.” She was onto something: where we live, the environments we navigate, inform who we are and how we understand the world. When writers create a fictional place, they create a force that likewise shapes their characters, whether it’s […]
Storytelling in the Round: A Family Lawyer’s Perspective
Storytelling in the Round: A Family Lawyer’s Perspective I practice family law, which means I’ve spent many hours and days in courtrooms listening, closely, to people tell different versions of the same events. Sometimes someone is objectively lying: no, Dad did not take the kid to the doctor’s, because the medical records show that Mom […]
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