Memory Writers Network » 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 Relationship between Fiction and Memoir, Interview Pt2 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt2/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt2/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:53:41 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1374 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt2/feed/ 1 Interview: Young Adult Fiction versus Coming of Age Memoirs http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt1/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt1/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:08:07 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1369 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt1/feed/ 4 Interview: Lessons From a Flock of Memoir Experts http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/namw-telesummit-2011/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/namw-telesummit-2011/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:59:57 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1344 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/namw-telesummit-2011/feed/ 0 Character Development of a Novel’s Hero http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-4/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-4/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:14:16 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1135 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-4/feed/ 0 How a Novelist Strives for Authentic Reality http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-2/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-2/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:53:45 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1118 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-2/feed/ 1 A Novelist Plays at the Border of Fact and Fiction http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-1/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-1/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:51:52 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1114 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-1/feed/ 2 Myths Suggest a Universal Template for Memoirs http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/myths-template-memoirs/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/myths-template-memoirs/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:18:05 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1052 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/myths-template-memoirs/feed/ 0 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 Yin and Yang of Storytelling – Dramatic Tension of Opposites 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 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. Jerry Waxler no no