Memory Writers Network » Literary Non-fiction 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 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 Conversation versus Story Style in Memoir http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-seeleypart-4/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-seeleypart-4/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:42:12 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1299 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-seeleypart-4/feed/ 1 Stretching the Memoir Form, Tracy Seeley Interview, Part 2 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-form-tracy-seeley-part-2/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-form-tracy-seeley-part-2/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:09:24 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1284 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-form-tracy-seeley-part-2/feed/ 2 In your memoir, how does your character grow? http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-character-arc/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-character-arc/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:21:36 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1043 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-character-arc/feed/ 0 What Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Means to Memoir Writers http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/cnf-memoir-writers/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/cnf-memoir-writers/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:02:22 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=974 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/cnf-memoir-writers/feed/ 0 Interview about the relationship between literature and life http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/literature-and-life/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/literature-and-life/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:23:33 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=798 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/literature-and-life/feed/ 2 Author and creative writing teacher helps me steer between fact and fiction http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/fact-fiction-interview/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/fact-fiction-interview/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:07:36 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=742 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/fact-fiction-interview/feed/ 2 Author Interview: Curtis Smith talks about publishing in Literary Journals http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/author-interview-curtis-smith/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/author-interview-curtis-smith/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:18:19 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=688 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/author-interview-curtis-smith/feed/ 1 Looking for the onramp at Philadelphia “Push To Publish” writer’s conference http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/publish-journals-philadelphia/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/publish-journals-philadelphia/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:42:37 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=669 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/publish-journals-philadelphia/feed/ 5 Reading error teaches a writing lesson – or – A good character is hard to define 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 Fiction built on a foundation of real life http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/fact-in-fiction/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/fact-in-fiction/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:06:31 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=442 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/fact-in-fiction/feed/ 4 0:08:38 Fiction seems entirely different from memoirs. And yet, when I carefully compare the two forms, I discover they are intimately connected, each breathing life into the other. A good memoir is more than just a raw dump of facts. It generates dramatic [...] Fiction seems entirely different from memoirs. And yet, when I carefully compare the two forms, I discover they are intimately connected, each breathing life into the other. A good memoir is more than just a raw dump of facts. It generates dramatic tension by using fiction techniques like suspense and character development. And the support is mutual. Fiction contains much real-world truth. 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