by Marilyn | Oct 2, 2014 | craft, Memoir, Uncategorized
“What ALL do we see then, when we look at the body anew? Particularly those parts that have been fetishized and plasticized, deified and desired, such as the female breast. For the literary essayist, a breast is rarely just a breast.” Barrie Jean Borich ...
by Marilyn | Sep 16, 2014 | Classes, Conscious writing, Memoir, Shifting Limiting Beliefs, Silencing, Voice, writing process
This week’s article is an audio recording interview with me by Jeanne Schlesinger on her radio program “To See with Soul.” After taking my course “Excavate Your Truth/Free Your Voice,” Jeanne found that much of the writing we did was,...
by Marilyn | Sep 3, 2014 | craft, Memoir, Voice, writing process
“I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.” Dorothy Allison “So, what?” I can still hear my writing friend Jon Kerstetter asking that question about the first packet of writing I submitted to our first creative nonfiction...
by Marilyn | Jul 9, 2014 | Memoir, Voice, writing process
Writing, like relationships, takes time and attention to develop. Indeed, both writing and relationships demand that you show up and listen—really listen—to the person you are in relationship with. Okay, then. But who, exactly, are you in relationship with when...
by Marilyn | Aug 22, 2013 | Book reviews, Memoir, Sexism, Silencing, Truth, Writing Women's Lives
When people ask me what I do as a writing coach, I tell them that I show women writers who are done being silent how to free their authentic voice so they can take “center page” in their writing and in their life. I’ll admit I love a good pun, and while my puns...
by Marilyn | Jul 30, 2012 | Hope Edelman, Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Memoir, Structure in Memoir
I have recently returned home from the 26th annual Iowa Summer Writing Festival, where I participated in Hope Edelman’s memoir writing workshop with nine other women memoirists. Hope, author of The Possibility of Everything, Mother of My Mother, Motherless Mothers,...
