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 | 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 | Feb 18, 2015 | Conscious writing, Embodied Writing, Memoir, Women's Memoir, Writing as Presence, Writing Exercise
I’ve “found” my voice, then, just where it ought to have been, in the body-warmed breath escaping my lungs and throat. Nancy Mairs One of my mentoring clients mentioned recently that a writing teacher once told her 90 percent of writing comes down to “butt in...
