Looking for memoir writing advice? Check out these do's and don'ts for struggling memoir writers.
How to outline your memoir using a simple 3 step process. Make sure you write a memoir outline before you start drafting the manuscript!
Editor and author Kelly Notaras shares 5 secrets for writing a strong and solid memoir outline that will hook readers and get you results!
How to outline your memoir using a simple 3 step process. Make sure you write a memoir outline before you start drafting the manuscript!
When I wrote my huge guide to book writing (Book Craft) I cut out all the nonfiction tips and strategies last minute; I’d already explored a bunch of material in my writing courses but wasn’t quite ready to share the nonfiction resources. Mainly, because, while I’m proud of the detailed 24 chapter novel outlining templates, […]
Creative Writer Worksheet – Writing Memoirs (PDF) This week’s worksheet is for the memoirists among us – those writers whose lives are their masterpiece. Or is that every one of us, after all? “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live” – Henry David Thoreau.
There's something particularly powerful about memoirs, the way they engage us and put us in another person's shoes. Here's a list of 15 powerful memoirs by women...
An overview of the seven basic story plots you can use for memoir, with examples of bestselling books which use each plot as examples.
We continue to work on developing our writing communities, slowly settling into what it means to write together, to be writers, and to feel free to write. We have written directions, we have discus…
“It’s almost like he’s sitting in a porch swing with you, just telling you about his life.”
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, a non-fiction book worth adding to your reading bucket list.
18 audiobooks read by the authors. List includes celebrity autobiographies of Jessica Simpson, Matthew mcconaughey, Mindy Kaling and many more memoirs read by the authors. Best audiobook narrators you don't want to miss.
Make time to start gathering and writing you own life stories - your legacy. Use these 7 prompts for ideas. You are not too young to capture your memories on paper.
From Tina Fey's memoir to Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler's dystopias, these works offer a window into the female experience.
In addition to using Facing History’s array of teaching resources on genocide, we invite you to deepen your own learning with these 7 brand new titles written by scholars and memoirists grappling with the nature of genocide, its impacts on people around the world, and the acts of resistance and humanity that persist amid horrific circumstances. These books range in format from survivor testimony and multigenerational biography, to accounts of historical upstanders and scholarly analysis of how we represent and teach about genocide itself.
This week’s writing prompt is completely different from the one I shared last week. You might even wonder as to my thought process in that decision. I just go with what speaks to me in the mo…
Including #1 ‘New York Times’ bestsellers from Bruce Springsteen, Julie Andrews, Will Smith, and more!
