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The Key Elements of Writing a Good Memoir
When I began work on my memoir, Hold Me Close, Let Me Go: A Mother, a Daughter and an Adolescence Survived, about my daughter’s action-packed coming of age, I didn’t know a thing about arcs. I thought,...
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Find an Angle to Bring Your Subject to Life
Have you ever poured your heart into a personal essay only to find the piece has grown like an untended plant? You really have no idea where to begin, where it should end and what goes in the middle....
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Do you obsess about the tone of your writing as you revise? You should. Tone is one of the most overlooked elements of writing. It can create interest, or kill it.It’s no wonder that so many of the...
View Article10 Ways to Tell if Your Story Should be a Memoir or a Novel
You want to write about something that happened to you. You operated an air charter service in the scorched red Australian outback, or your whole family drank excessively, or you were on an ordinary...
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