by Marilyn Bousquin | Mar 25, 2015 | Memoir, Uncategorized, Women's Memoir
Nothing says visibility like video. Which is why I’ve been making a video a day for the last week. You see, after two years of wanting to make video and not doing it, I finally had to admit that my inaction had less to do with the excuse I was telling...
by Marilyn Bousquin | Mar 18, 2015 | craft, Memoir, Uncategorized, Women's Memoir, Writing Exercise
“The urgency of having to fit the content into an abbreviated frame is what makes it powerful.” Dinty Moore Last week’s article defined flash memoir, and pointed you in the direction of the online magazine Brevity: A Journal of Concise Nonfiction so that you...
by Marilyn Bousquin | Mar 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Years ago, when I lived in Boston and worked for The Horn Book Magazine, novelist and children’s author Alice Hoffman read her work at a local bookstore. After her reading, a woman in the audience asked Hoffman what she recommended for an aspiring writer who had...
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by Marilyn Bousquin | Mar 4, 2015 | craft, Memoir, Reflective Voice, Voice
Last December I spent a lovely hour with Linda Joy Myers at the National Association of Memoir Writers talking about the reflective voice in memoir. I’ve had so many requests for the audio recording of this talk that I thought I would post it here for easy access to...
