http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:39:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 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 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 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/cotton-thompson-memoir/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/cotton-thompson-memoir/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:29:34 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=532 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/cotton-thompson-memoir/feed/ 0 0:07:30 At the time of the rape, he was actually home asleep on the sofa, a fact sworn to by members of his family. The all-white jury weighed their testimony against Jennifer Thompson's positive identification. "That's him," she said under oath, and so Cot[...] At the time of the rape, he was actually home asleep on the sofa, a fact sworn to by members of his family. The all-white jury weighed their testimony against Jennifer Thompson's positive identification. "That's him," she said under oath, and so Cotton went to jail. identity, memory Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/are-memoirs-true-or-false/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/are-memoirs-true-or-false/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:38:04 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=329 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/are-memoirs-true-or-false/feed/ 7 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/recover-memory-scene/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/recover-memory-scene/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:59:35 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=141 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/recover-memory-scene/feed/ 7 0:00:01 The best way to share my nerdiness is to show scenes, bringing readers into the halls of my high school to see for themselves. And yet when I try to describe my life in high school, I feel like I'm trying to peer into the hidden memories of a strang[...] The best way to share my nerdiness is to show scenes, bringing readers into the halls of my high school to see for themselves. And yet when I try to describe my life in high school, I feel like I'm trying to peer into the hidden memories of a stranger. Who was that guy? Fortunately, memoir writers have tricks. By prying into the hazy past, we can find far more detail than we had first expected. memory, Storytelling Jerry Waxler no no