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	<description>Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs</description>
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		<title>Writing for Community &#8211; or &#8211; When Going Public Can Save Dignity and Lives</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The testimonials served a different purpose than most memoirs. Rather than being selected for literary merit or completeness of story, these pieces were selected for their moral courage and willingness to communicate. And while this particular book may not reach the best seller charts, its effects radiate far beyond these particular individuals. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-community-abuse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Healthy Community Needs a Healthy Writer&#8217;s Group</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A regional writing group in which I participate recently asked me to contribute to an application for a 501c3 status as a non-profit community organization. Since this is a topic about which I have been passionate for years, I had a number of ideas, that I had never written them all down in one place. Now, as I research the ways a writing group helps the community, I want to extend the conversation out to the blog world. If you have any need for such a document in your own writing group, or you want to offer your ideas and suggestions to other writing groups, please offer your comments, links, and suggestions, below. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/community-writers-group-grant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To reach readers, learn from writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes skill and courage to write a memoir, and then like trees falling in the forest, our intimate stories thunder silently on the page, until someone reads them. Persuading others to read what we've written seems daunting and foreign, unrelated to the central project. And so when writers get together, in addition to discussing their craft, they also ponder the challenges of reaching readers. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/to-reach-readers-learn-from-writers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently reviewed Bill Strickland's memoir Ten Points. It strikes me as being a "perfect memoir" - it's a great read, it has a powerful sense of love and redemption, and the author opens up generously into his inner process. In order to delve even deeper, I asked him answer a few questions. Just as he was generous in his memoir, he was also generous in sharing his insights about writing it. This is the first of a two part interview. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/bill-strickland-memoir-author-interview-part-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler One of the best memoirs I have read is about a guy who wants to score 10 points in bicycle racing. Whether or not he achieves his cycling goal, Ten Points by Bill Strickland gets 10 points &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-of-abuse-and-redemption-book-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To improve your memoir, break down the code</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler My dad owned a neighborhood drugstore in north Philadelphia, and on the nights he was able to make it home for dinner, most of the conversation centered around him telling us about the menagerie of characters who &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/to-improve-your-memoir-break-down-the-code/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Storytelling lessons for memoir writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler The tiny town of Bethlehem in Southeastern Pennsylvania has a lot going on. It was the birthplace of Bethlehem Steel, it sports an 81 foot high Christmas star, hosts the annual regional music bash called Musikfest, is &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/storytelling-lessons-for-memoir-writers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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