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Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
When it comes to close encounters of the animal kind, you don't have to be Captain "Sully" Sullenberger to have had one. Our friend Frank was accosted by a swan which didn't leave him alone until he...
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Memoirs on Overpowering Topics
At the Self-Publishing Book Expo I attended recently in New York, I met three women whose memoirs successfully tackle these potentially overpowering topics: leaving your country of origin; growing up...
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The Iconic Photo
I once found a photo tucked inside a book at an estate sale. The photo showed a Model T in ruins, destroyed by what looked like a head-on collision. The photo jumped out at me. I took it the man,...
View ArticleVisiting A Place That No Longer Exists
When you write a memoir about fishing, writes William Zinsser in Writing About Your Life, your subject is “the transaction between yourself and fishing—as a sport, as a pastime, as therapy, as a buddy...
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Your Stuff, Your Memoir?
I used to think memoir consists of three things: (1) writing, (2) in the first person, (3) about a thin slice of a person’s life. “The reader doesn’t want the whole iceberg, just the tip,” to...
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Memoir Tip: Look At Old Magazines
I've blogged about how your stuff and a bridge can be a memoir. But as I was reading a Family Circle letter to the editor , I thought of something else. In "Thanks for the Memories," Terasa Goggins...
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