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/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 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 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/philadelphia-courage/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/philadelphia-courage/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:52 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=641 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/philadelphia-courage/feed/ 1 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 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/storytelling-and-listening-is-a-social-trend/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/storytelling-and-listening-is-a-social-trend/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:32:32 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/storytelling-and-listening-is-a-social-trend/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/storytelling-and-listening-is-a-social-trend/feed/ 5 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/creative-brain-jam-in-philly-ties-it-all-together/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/creative-brain-jam-in-philly-ties-it-all-together/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:56:22 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/creative-brain-jam-in-philly-ties-it-all-together/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/creative-brain-jam-in-philly-ties-it-all-together/feed/ 3 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirs-start-last-night/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirs-start-last-night/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:30:26 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=7 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirs-start-last-night/feed/ 0