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Memoir Writers
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Kamy Wicoff
June 2009
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We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir by Terra Trevor
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Terra Trevor
21 days ago
My new memoir, "We Who Walk the Seven Ways," is out now. It was released from the University of Nebraska Press on May 1, 2023. Big Smile!...
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Looking for Book Writing Support
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Rachel Davita Harris
December 2020
Hi Friends, I have a very,very rough draft of a book that is part memoir and part teaching book on the value letting our stories out, as well as...
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Writing about a sibling you do not like
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Irene Kessler
December 2019
How to: I am caught in the middle. My father arranged it before his death that the two of us should share the business. I depend on my brother for...
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Fictionalizing parts of my memoir
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Nancy Hinchliff
February 2018
Last reply by
Nan Sanders Pokerwinski
May 2019
I am writing my second memoir, and I have a question from the other memoirists here. If I decide to fictionalize some of the dialogue in my book...
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How does a 62-year-old woman who's never been married find happiness with . . .
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B. Lynn Goodwin
January 2018
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Nan Sanders Pokerwinski
May 2019
a two-time widower seeking his third wife on . . . Craigslist!? Does she throw caution to the wind and relinquish her freedom, or should she take a...
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Where is Everybody?
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Marjorie Witt
May 2017
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Irene Kessler
November 2019
I know there are a tone of memoir writers out there. I've seen them at conventions. I see shelves full of memoirs when I wander into one of the few...
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Finding the Edge for My Memoir
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Mary Ellen Latela
November 2015
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Nancy Hinchliff
December 2017
MARY'S MEMOIR OK, 85K words since Nov. 1st. Now I am looking for ideas for hooking readers and bringing them along - what edge? Just freewriting...
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Writer Advice's Flash Prose Contest
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B. Lynn Goodwin
March 2015
WriterAdvice seeks flash fiction, memoir, and creative non-fiction running 750 words or less. Enlighten, dazzle, and delight us. Finalists receive...
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Writer Advice's Scintillating Starts Contest
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B. Lynn Goodwin
November 2014
WRITER ADVICE’S SCINTILLATING STARTS CONTEST www.writeradvice.com $20 ENTRY FEE 3 PRIZES OF $100 Deadline: 11/10/14 Entice us. Submit the opening...
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Sharing intimate details of someone else's life
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susan imhoff bird
September 2014
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Charlene Diane Jones
February 2015
I'd love some input from you memoir writers about sharing, in your written work, stories that reveal intimate aspects of people other than oneself....
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