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Permalink Reply by Pamela Jane on May 24, 2011 at 5:59am

I can relate to that, Nancy!  I can't wait to read it!

Permalink Reply by Julie Farrar on April 19, 2011 at 7:10pm

Hi All -- I've finally reached a place that allows me to look back somewhat objectively on the experience of raising my two kids my husband and I adopted from Russia when they were older children.  It's been a rollercoaster of adjustment even as my daughter is getting ready to graduate college.  I may never finish it or get it published, but I won't be complete until I get in writing what life has been like in the midst of this tornado.  Instead of making it chronological it will be a collection of essays.  The timeline is much less important than the issues we faced, and the essay form is my most comfortable writing space, so I simply have started writing essay after essay -- humorous, sad, the good, the bad.  It won't be the story of my kids' lives as much as the story of my coming to terms with the family I have vs. the family I thought I was going to make.  On SheWrites I'm finding so many resources in all the members.  I love the links, blogs, words of experience everyone shares.

Permalink Reply by Pamela Jane on May 24, 2011 at 6:01am

Julie,

 

We have a family living nearby who also adopted (three) siblings from Russian, and have an older teenage daughter.  Please keep us posted; the book sounds great!

Permalink Reply by Emiliana Martín on May 24, 2011 at 1:03am

Free psychotherapy that actually works w/o 12 steps. Hint: It's a memoir

http://bit.ly/kugQV6 or http://on.fb.me/h3tTsy

Permalink Reply by Pamela Jane on May 24, 2011 at 6:02am

Emiliana,

 

This book sounds fascinating.  Is there any more you can say about it now; is it out?

 

 

Permalink Reply by Emiliana Martín on June 16, 2011 at 12:55pm

Pamela,

Thanks for asking. I didn't notice this question until today. I'm in the process of writing my memoir. Of course, as I write, I publish into my blog. My hope is to transition from blog to published memoir. 

I'm currently focusing on my life now as a widowed, single parent but will occasionally delve into my history that includes incest, a past that's slightly more complicated, difficult to write about.

My thinking is if I just start writing, I said if I JUST START WRITING the rest will come and believe me, it's a tsunami. It's the way I'm wired. For some reason, where my memoir is concerned, I do fits and spurts as opposed to chapters at a time. 

A former boss once said, "I believe in good rewriting. Rarely is the first draft final." So, for me, I'm drafting my first pages. I wish I would write it faster but this is the process God has mapped out for me. 

 

I LOVE WRITING and look forward to my first published book.

Permalink Reply by Emiliana Martín on May 25, 2011 at 6:38pm

VOTE 4 MY BLOG at Circle of Moms http://bit.ly/ln8bDA then ...

read it at http://bit.ly/eNpJ3X

It's become clear that my blog IS my memoir. I hope, someday, to publish it. I've been procrastinating for too long, obviously.

Permalink Reply by Emiliana Martín on June 13, 2011 at 5:23pm

Today (actually yesterday) I posted the second installment of my "Blog therapy" series titled, "The Joy of Gardening." It's actually become that blog I'll turn into a book someday. Read it now so you can say you read it before it was a polished novel.

Visit http://bit.ly/mCCouK.

 

Feel free to follow me on here on She Writes, Twitter, Facebook and/or Scribd.

Permalink Reply by Emiliana Martín on June 16, 2011 at 12:46pm

Yet another memoir installment on my blog

How kids survive childhood http://bit.ly/l8Bzje or  http://on.fb.me/h3tTsy

Did your child do something so outrageous that you just had to laugh, I mean turn around and laugh because you didn't want them to think what they just did was okay even though it seemed to come right out of a sitcom?

 

Permalink Reply by Linda Lichtman on August 7, 2011 at 11:40am

Please let me add that tonite on my InnerGiggler Radio show I have special guest Victoria Zackheim, an incredible writer/editor, who teaches Memoir thru UCLA extension.  5 of her Anthologies have been published, one book of fiction, and one of the anthologies is being adapted as a stage play opening on the west coast next year.

You can connect at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/InnerGiggler or call 661-449-1449

We air LIVE at 7p-pt/ 10p-et - Call in your Memoir questions...we're one enormous energy!

Permalink Reply by Pamela Jane on August 7, 2011 at 5:10am

I just posted a blog for womensmemoirs.com on Secrets of Time Travel for memoir (and other) writers.  Please stop by and share your own secrets and strategies for traveling through time and bringing the past alive. http://bit.ly/qTE7yl

Permalink Reply by Pamela Jane on December 5, 2011 at 8:16am

Memoir writers, find out how to dream you way into your memoir -- work while you're sleeping! http://bit.ly/vlCUjA

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