Is this YOU? you have a memoir project that’s been on the ‘back burner’ for some time you want to do the writing yourself, but need a bit of guidance you’ve been working at your memoir project, but now you want to discuss it or get feedback you’re looking for help with particular aspects of [...]
Sooner or later when writing a memoir, or even notes for a memoir, you’ll get to some tough bits. There are sorrows, hurtful experiences, damaging relationships and many other things that give pain in most lives. How are you going to deal with that? You could of course choose to ignore these hurts and sorrows [...]
I have an inner troll. Some writers call this critter an inner critic, but that’s too tame a concept for what I have to contend with. My troll has an amazing repetoire of kindness, things like ‘that sucks’, ‘who do you think you are?’ ‘there’s no way anybody will read that’, and my favourite of [...]
Now that you have a few dozen pages of your memoir written; or you’ve got a prologue drafted; or you have notes, maybe even an outline–you’re stuck. You try to go back to the project time and time again, yet nothing happens. You are too frustrated to continue. You don’t know where you are going [...]