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 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/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 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/zen-memoir-motorcycle/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/zen-memoir-motorcycle/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:39:07 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=426 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/zen-memoir-motorcycle/feed/ 6 0:07:23 The one rule he didn't break was to put a finite time period on his memoir. He did this precisely. Mark Richardson's wrapper story covers the couple of weeks during which he rode his motorcycle from Minneapolis to San Francisco. It's tight, except f[...] The one rule he didn't break was to put a finite time period on his memoir. He did this precisely. Mark Richardson's wrapper story covers the couple of weeks during which he rode his motorcycle from Minneapolis to San Francisco. It's tight, except for the strange fact that the material actually covers decades. It's a feat of literary legerdemain. Philosophy, reading, travel Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/rediscovering-why-i-read-books-throughout-my-lifetime/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/rediscovering-why-i-read-books-throughout-my-lifetime/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:57:56 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/rediscovering-why-i-read-books-throughout-my-lifetime/ Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/rediscovering-why-i-read-books-throughout-my-lifetime/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Books have always played an important role in my life, influencing, informing, and entertaining. Now I want to pass forward to others the benefits I have received. One of the steps of offering my thoughts to "the world" is to visualize who might be [...] Books have always played an important role in my life, influencing, informing, and entertaining. Now I want to pass forward to others the benefits I have received. One of the steps of offering my thoughts to "the world" is to visualize who might be on the receiving end. Communication does, after all, require a speaker and a listener. So who are "those people" out there to whom I am speaking? One approach to understanding what makes them tick is to explore how books have worked for me. By picking apart the way books have worked in my life, I hope to learn how other people use books. reading Jerry Waxler no no