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Memoir Writers
Latest activity: February 2018
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Kamy Wicoff
June 2009
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Fictionalizing parts of my memoir
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Nancy Hinchliff
February 2018
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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B. Lynn Goodwin
January 2018
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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Eileen Drennen
October 2018
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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Thematic Awareness Yuck
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Laura Eitniear
July 2014
I have been writing life story vignettes for half my life, twenty years. I just recently started getting serious about putting it all together and...
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Writer Advice's 9th Flash Prose Contest
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B. Lynn Goodwin
February 2014
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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What memoirs are you reading?
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Pamela Jane
November 2013
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Eva Feindler
April 2017
Anyone reading any good memoirs, something you'd like to recommend? Right now I'm reading "Orange is the New Black" by Piper Kerman, about a Smith...
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