by Marilyn | May 27, 2015 | Memoir, Memoir Writing, Self Discovery, Uncategorized, Women's Memoir, writing process
One of the hallmarks of writing memoir is making sense of your life experiences. The very act of looking back and seeing how seemingly disparate events are connected by deeper themes leads not only to insight and wisdom but also to self-compassion. Writing...
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 | Jan 21, 2015 | writer's block, writing process, Writing Time
Uh oh. Here it comes again. That relentless voice of doubt that snaps me out of my writing—out of my heart—and up into my head. Suddenly, the scene I was just in is miles away and I am rehearsing the old whine, “Maybe I’m not really a writer. Why am I writing this?...
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 23, 2014 | Conscious writing, Shifting Limiting Beliefs, Silencing, Virginia Woolf, Writing Block, writing process
Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer. Virginia Woolf When I begin working with women in my “Transform Your Writing/Transform Your Life” mentorship program, I give them what I call a “Conscious Writing Packet.” The...
