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Memoir & Life Writing
From the monthly archives:
by Elly Danica
You know you need to start writing your memoirs when: you keep telling the same stories over and over until your children and friends have them by heart you find yourself waking in the early morning hours with stories dancing in your mind you’ve started to collect notebooks and nice pens, and go fantasy shopping [...]
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by Elly Danica
A memoir can be about your whole life or any part of it you want to write about. Let’s look at a few starting points. 1. Start with a date. In 1975 a friend and I bought an abandoned white clapboard prairie church in a tiny village in Saskatchewan for $300. I’ve got a lot [...]
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by Elly Danica
If there is one thing I wish for as a writer, it is the blessed state of having written. Sound odd? It isn’t really. A project such as a memoir is a significant commitment of time and energy, and having it written even in first draft feels absolutely terrific. Only thing is you have to [...]
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by Elly Danica
Our lives are made up of a great many little things, things we notice enough to connect with, to make meaning out of, to take into our hearts. Sometimes these things are dramas but most often they are not. It is the quality of our notice that makes them important to us. Yet we live [...]
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by Elly Danica
We live now in an ever more fragmented, disconnected world. Generations are often segregated. There are adult only communities. Even if we don’t live in such an environment, how do we interact with younger folks when their spheres of interest and ours so seldom overlap? Just a few generations ago many of us had extended [...]
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