This blog is all about writing memoirs. In it, I offer tips and techniques, based on the workshops I teach, as well as book reviews of a variety of published and self-published memoirs, as well as interviews with memoirists and others.
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Recently, I saw a memoir "American Shaolin" by Matthew Polly, a young man who dropped out of Princeton to study Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple in China. I was stunned to learn the place was real and even more astonished that it still existed. At first I...
Funderburg went on to read a passage from her recently published memoir, which I have not yet had an opportunity to read, called "Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home: A Memoir." It's about discovering her relationship with her...
This is a list of the memoirs I've read which have provided the insights and experience I write about in the MemoryWritersNetwork essays. They include a variety of styles, life situations, and periods. I have added a brief note with each. This list is...
I hope the book does inspire people to, most of all, learn more about their environment, and from that learning, develop a greater connection with their local land, which will naturally lead to the kind of advocacy and stewardship that creates enduring...
I think it's far more effective to describe the big stuff of life -- spiritual struggles, traumas and wounds, giant yearnings or losses -- by entering through the backdoor. By that, I mean you can convey the depth of what you're writing by aiming...
