WriPaMyMeNo, Day 30: An Interview with the Author
.In this final post of my November memoir challenge, I sum up what I’ve accomplished and what I still hope to accomplish, using many subheads and bullets and lots of boldface text.
Welcome to day 29 of the Write Part of My Memoir in November challenge, poor puppy edition. Earlier today, I found myself filled with terror, followed by great pain. Stay with me here. The ordeal was over far more quickly than the telling will be. A dog of many beds It all started when I […]
Revenge can work well in a memoir if deployed sparingly and strategically. Here are a few ideas of how.
Are you ready to write a memoir? Here’s a selection of questions from a pop quiz in Mary Karr’s Art of the Memoir that might help.
The persona of my memoir is no prude, but she doesn’t use curse words — although I do. Here’s why I make the distinction.
I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then: That’s the memoirist’s dilemma — and also my official soundtrack.
Would one of the books that I found inspirational in high school — one that changed my life — hold up to scrutiny by the older me?
In writing, as in life, sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the good.
With knowledge comes responsibility — and an urge to revise your manuscript. Stop me before I learn again.
What do Marcel Proust, a small Tucson dog, and cold sesame noodles have in common? Read on.
Logic, not the power of concentration or the poetry of free association, often helps me remember events from the past. What works for you?