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Storytelling in Memoir

by Linda Joy Myers | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog, Memories and Memoirs, Writing Skills

We all have a story to tell, but ah–how to tell it, that’s what keeps us at our desk, scribbling in our notebooks, looking for the scenes and moments that we carry in our hearts. Our job as memoirists is to translate what we know and remember to the page, to put...

Visiting the Bronte Sisters in Haworth, Yorkshire

by Linda Joy Myers | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Memories and Memoirs

It’s not a place you might have heard of unless you are thinking of literary sites, but that was my plan—to visit a location where “place” was one of the characters in the story. Haworth is three train rides away from London, and you have to get off at Keithley and...

5 Reasons a Memoir Conference is Good for Your Writing Life by Linda Joy Myers

by Linda Joy Myers | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, Memories and Memoirs

‘Tis the season for writing conferences! As you know, we writers tend to be solitary people—we have to be willing to slave at our desks alone for months and years while we write our book. Some writers are so dedicated to their writing they’re cautious about taking the...

Conversation on Truth, Exposure, and the Reason We Write Memoir

by Linda Joy Myers | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog, Memories and Memoirs

Recently I had the privilege of moderating a panel at the Bay Area Book Festival. The panel was titled “Why Write Memoir: A Conversation about Truth, Exposure, and the Genre People Love to Hate.” The title shows a perfect combination of the issues that memoir writers...

Authoring Your Life—Encouragement to Write Our Stories by Brooke Warner

by Linda Joy Myers | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Memories and Memoirs

As a writing coach through the years, I’ve often found that women in particular struggle with having a voice—and with feeling empowered to get their work out into the world. I myself spent years battling my inner critic about my own memoir Don’t Call Me...
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