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- Agree. My favorite recent memoir, "Gimme Shelter" by Mary Elizabeth Williams, wove the author's life into a hot-button issue of the day, so her riveting personal story...
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In Between ProjectsI had to do the same thing. What books are like yours? What were the (approx) demo for those? I don't think you need to do straight up standard SRDS kinds of stats, lik...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsI find that starting to write--at any point, almost any thing--so that the page is no longer staring at me blankly is crucial, as is a block of time without interruption. That being s...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between Projects...f anthropology: placing individual lives in a larger political/cultural/economic and social context... Annette Fix said:Exactly. That's why it's crucial to make sure you've identifie...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsBy Annette FixExactly. That's why it's crucial to make sure you've identified and tapped into the universal theme(s) in your story. The readers will relate to the big picture even if they don't r...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsSpeaking of marketing, I'd love to hear what others have done/are doing to market their memoirs once they've overcome all the other challenges of sitting down to work,...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between Projects...ions you make about memoir and think they are crucial to thinking about making the...ifferently, expanding your audience. Story is crucial and, I think, one of the main...tellectual ideas, and so on. Audience is also crucial; one can't assume specialized...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between Projects...rt to heal. Rachael Brownell said:The other implied question is "What's so important about YOUR story??" One thing recovery has taught me is how crucial personal story-telling is......Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsThe other implied question is "What's so important about YOUR story??" One thing recovery has taught me is how crucial personal story-telling is... to everyone.Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsStarted by Sarah SaffianLast reply by Audrey WilsonTo start off, a quote from David Carr re. his recent memoir, Night of the Gun: "Personal narrative is not simply opening up a vein and letting the blood flow toward anyone willing to stare." Indeed.
