by Ann Edall-Robson | Aug 11, 2020 | Columns, Memoir & Times Past, Tips for Writers
Write about what you know. My initial knee jerk, gut reaction, to that statement was, “No one would be interested in the things that I know.” Followed by, “I can’t write about some of that stuff! People wouldn’t believe half of it.” Needless to say, I got past my...
by Ann Edall-Robson | Jun 16, 2020 | Columns, Memoir & Times Past
Growing up, life, and events happened because they just did. As I got older, I had a different take on that thought, and every so often something would filter through my day creating a déjà vu moment. I maybe shrugged this off, but it got archived somewhere in the...
by Charli Mills | Aug 10, 2018 | Memoir & Times Past
By Irene Waters I started off this series for Charli saying that I had already written about what memoir is and at the time I chose not to repeat it. However, in summing up for the last post in this series, I thought it is probably worth revisiting what a memoir is....
by Charli Mills | Jul 13, 2018 | Memoir & Times Past
By Irene Waters Truth is considered fundamental in writing memoir. The work of Smith and Watson show that memory is not an exact memory of the past event but the past combined with the present, differences in history and ideologies of the time so rather than memory...
by Charli Mills | Jun 15, 2018 | Memoir & Times Past
By Irene Waters Although memoir is a true story of a particular part of your life, it must still have structure if you intend for others to read it. Firstly you have to decide what is the story that you want to tell. For most memoir writers it will be the most...
by Charli Mills | May 27, 2018 | Memoir & Times Past
By Charli Mills, Generation X, Rural US Television killed the conversation. That’s how I think of “family” dinners growing up. As an only child in rural northern California, my parents didn’t converse at dinner. Instead, my mother prepared the...
