Memory Writers Network » Lifelong Learning http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Tue, 15 May 2012 12:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2007 jerrywaxler@yahoo.com (Jerry Waxler) jerrywaxler@yahoo.com (Jerry Waxler) Self-help 1440 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/LearnMemoirCoverFront-small.jpg Memory Writers Network http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog 144 144 Reading and writing memoirs. Record the Stories of Your Life, tips, how-to, memoir book reviews, by Jerry Waxler memoir, writers, self-help, book-reviews, essays Jerry Waxler Jerry Waxler jerrywaxler@yahoo.com no no Nine Reasons To Read Memoirs http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/eight-benefits-of-reading-memoirs/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/eight-benefits-of-reading-memoirs/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 11:14:17 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/eight-benefits-of-reading-memoirs/ Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/eight-benefits-of-reading-memoirs/feed/ 9 Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/second-chance-career/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/second-chance-career/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:01:01 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1223 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/second-chance-career/feed/ 0 Why Coming of Age Memoirs ought to be a genre http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/coming-of-age-memoirs/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/coming-of-age-memoirs/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:48:51 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=722 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/coming-of-age-memoirs/feed/ 5 Life’s desires create the chapters of our story http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/desire-creates-chapters/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/desire-creates-chapters/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:51:28 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=712 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/desire-creates-chapters/feed/ 5 Teaching Memoirs, Meeting Locals, Making Memories http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-workshop-story/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-workshop-story/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:02:02 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=595 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-workshop-story/feed/ 3 Memoir writing is a form of therapy http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:57:28 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/ Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/feed/ 14 Memoir by Celebrity Joan Rivers Offers Lessons for Aspiring Writers http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/joan-rivers-celebrity-memoir/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/joan-rivers-celebrity-memoir/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:28:02 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=537 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/joan-rivers-celebrity-memoir/feed/ 0 0:08:49 The road to success is littered with the dead acts and fatigued performers who have given up before making it through the gauntlet. And that's exactly what makes Rivers and Martin so interesting, so informative, and in the end so famous - their rele[...] The road to success is littered with the dead acts and fatigued performers who have given up before making it through the gauntlet. And that's exactly what makes Rivers and Martin so interesting, so informative, and in the end so famous - their relentless pursuit of unique excellence and their refusal to follow the herd. memoir, writers, self-help, book-reviews, essays Jerry Waxler no no Turn economic hardships into stories of strength http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hardship-stories-strength/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hardship-stories-strength/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:48:20 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=509 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hardship-stories-strength/feed/ 0 Link isolated anecdotes into a story with the power of your beliefs http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/anecdotes-story-beliefs/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/anecdotes-story-beliefs/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:02:04 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=359 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/anecdotes-story-beliefs/feed/ 1 Escaping the prison of what might have been http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/escaping-prison-past/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/escaping-prison-past/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:07:55 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=144 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/escaping-prison-past/feed/ 4 0:00:01 I have met many men and women, who start out pointing in one direction, say towards a profession, or marriage and babies, or the family business. Then they end up somewhere else. Often the change in direction leaves them or their parents feeling con[...] I have met many men and women, who start out pointing in one direction, say towards a profession, or marriage and babies, or the family business. Then they end up somewhere else. Often the change in direction leaves them or their parents feeling confused, as if they have disrupted destiny or lost an important part of themselves. 60's, Storytelling, Trauma Jerry Waxler no no