by Marilyn | Apr 22, 2015 | craft, Voice, Women's Memoir, Writing Exercise
The voice is the creature of the body that produces it. Nancy Mairs In order to recover your voice, you have to return to your body. Indeed, writing is an embodied activity. After all, our voices are housed in our bodies. As Nancy Mairs puts it, “No body, no...
by Marilyn | Apr 1, 2015 | craft, Memoir Writing, Transformational Arc, Women's Memoir
One of the questions I get asked often by women writers, whether they’re writing short memoir stories or a book-length memoir, is How do I know where my story begins, and how do I know where it ends? It’s an excellent question because when we write...
by Marilyn | 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...
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by Marilyn | 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...
by Marilyn | Feb 4, 2015 | craft, Interview, Jenny Poore, Voice, writing process
One of my favorite online literary journals is Full Grown People, founded and edited by Jennifer Niesslein. FGP publishes “essays that tackle those moments in life when you wonder, what’s next?” and, if you’re on their email list, like I am, delivers a new essay into...
by Marilyn | Dec 17, 2014 | craft, Descriptive Writing, Writing as Presence, Writing Time
Menorahs in windows. Lights on trees. Kinaras on table tops. Pilgrimages. Winter solstice. Family. Friends. Gifts. Giving. Presents. The list of traditions we enjoy this time of year is long, varied, and lovely. No matter which holiday(s) we celebrate, at the...
