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/self-concept-trauma/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-concept-trauma/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:55:09 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1139 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-concept-trauma/feed/ 3 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt2/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt2/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:18:36 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=574 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt2/feed/ 2 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt1/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt1/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:47:14 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=570 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt1/feed/ 8 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:00:48 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/feed/ 3 0:00:01 Story moves you to the next step Instead of keeping memories trapped in their original form, free them up with story. 60's, Trauma Jerry Waxler no no 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 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 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/homer-iliad-ptsd/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/homer-iliad-ptsd/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:25:59 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=136 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/homer-iliad-ptsd/feed/ 3 0:00:01 Writing about the dehumanizing memories Pain is part of life, but should it be part of memoirs? To understand, I read and look for lessons within the most painful of all, war memoirs. Myths, Trauma Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-xujun-eberlein-2/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-xujun-eberlein-2/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 12:23:57 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=135 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-xujun-eberlein-2/feed/ 9 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-with-author-xujun-eberlein/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-with-author-xujun-eberlein/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 12:09:21 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=134 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-with-author-xujun-eberlein/feed/ 16 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/collapsed-lives-into-memoirs/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/collapsed-lives-into-memoirs/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 11:33:13 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=131 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/collapsed-lives-into-memoirs/feed/ 6 0:00:01 How to remember a life that fell apart Forgetting the past turns out to be a temporary state. As I try to explain my journey through life, those bad decisions and lost dreams keep coming back, fragmented, unkind, and confusing. Memoirs, Trauma, Veteran Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/veterans-seek-healing-by-cycling-through-vietnam/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/veterans-seek-healing-by-cycling-through-vietnam/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:22:21 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=127 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/veterans-seek-healing-by-cycling-through-vietnam/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Outside, in the world around them, the world seemed peaceful, while much of the real drama was taking place inside their minds, where memories boiled and occasionally erupted into tears. I empathized with the courage it must have taken to face the c[...] Outside, in the world around them, the world seemed peaceful, while much of the real drama was taking place inside their minds, where memories boiled and occasionally erupted into tears. I empathized with the courage it must have taken to face the country where deep scars were burned into their psyche, and several times I cried along with them. Trauma, Veteran Jerry Waxler no no