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/two-waxler-workshop/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/two-waxler-workshop/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 11:38:49 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1185 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/two-waxler-workshop/feed/ 6 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/agent-query-workshop/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/agent-query-workshop/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:19:36 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1160 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/agent-query-workshop/feed/ 3 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 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-workshop-story/feed/ 3 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/character-development-lesson/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/character-development-lesson/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:45:40 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=460 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/character-development-lesson/feed/ 0 0:06:48 Part of relating to a good story is to feel a personal connection with its characters. Now I need to develop the knack of portraying the people in my life onto the pages in my memoir. I have attended workshops, and read how-to books about this skill[...] Part of relating to a good story is to feel a personal connection with its characters. Now I need to develop the knack of portraying the people in my life onto the pages in my memoir. I have attended workshops, and read how-to books about this skill, but it has been eluding me until recently when I stumbled upon a valuable insight. By incorrectly reading a series of short stories, I had an aha-moment about how reader and writer work together to form characters. This discovery will help me bring my characters to life. Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/yin-yang-dramatic-tension/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/yin-yang-dramatic-tension/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:29:36 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=449 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/yin-yang-dramatic-tension/feed/ 3 0:07:09 Each story shows characters caught in the emotions and circumstances of ordinary life, and yet despite their ordinariness, I feel engaged in their struggles, turning the page to learn more. As I seek to understand how Susan Muaddi Darraj has accompl[...] Each story shows characters caught in the emotions and circumstances of ordinary life, and yet despite their ordinariness, I feel engaged in their struggles, turning the page to learn more. As I seek to understand how Susan Muaddi Darraj has accomplished her hold on me, I notice a particular feature of the writing. She has superbly tapped the power of opposites. Family Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/philadelphia-stories-conference/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/philadelphia-stories-conference/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:58:42 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=242 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/philadelphia-stories-conference/feed/ 13 0:10:20 The keynote speech turned out to be invigorating and freeing. Beth Kephart, whose work I did not know, started as a memoir writer, who, as her career proceeded, extended her writing to other forms, most recently winning awards as a young adult novel[...] The keynote speech turned out to be invigorating and freeing. Beth Kephart, whose work I did not know, started as a memoir writer, who, as her career proceeded, extended her writing to other forms, most recently winning awards as a young adult novelist. As her writing skills and interests develop, Beth follows her creative compulsion and then finds people who understand it. That is the refreshing message I drink in; it's okay to speak from my heart and then find a market, rather than the other way around. Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-lessons-zombies/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-lessons-zombies/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:30:49 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=217 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-lessons-zombies/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Zombie books awaken spirituality Writing lessons for Memoir Writers from Thriller writer Jonathan Maberry Myths, Storytelling Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/boomer-memoir-is-a-step-towards-social-activism/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/boomer-memoir-is-a-step-towards-social-activism/#comments Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:08:45 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/boomer-memoir-is-a-step-towards-social-activism/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/boomer-memoir-is-a-step-towards-social-activism/feed/ 1 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-conference-tip-for-memoirists-use-myth-to-find-story/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-conference-tip-for-memoirists-use-myth-to-find-story/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 10:36:46 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=4 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-conference-tip-for-memoirists-use-myth-to-find-story/feed/ 0 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-conference-tip-for-memoirists-memoir-as-literary-non-fiction/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-conference-tip-for-memoirists-memoir-as-literary-non-fiction/#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 10:37:26 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=27 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-conference-tip-for-memoirists-memoir-as-literary-non-fiction/feed/ 0