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 | Dec 10, 2014 | Conscious writing, craft, Memoir, Reflective Voice, Uncategorized, Voice
In writing memoir, the trick, it seems to me, is to establish a double perspective, that will allow the reader to participate vicariously in the experience as it was lived (the confusions and misapprehensions of the child one was, say), while conveying the...