http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Tue, 15 May 2012 12:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 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/memoir-genre/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-genre/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:13:43 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=587 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-genre/feed/ 5 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/joan-rivers-celebrity-memoir/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/joan-rivers-celebrity-memoir/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:28:02 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=537 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/joan-rivers-celebrity-memoir/feed/ 0 0:08:49 The road to success is littered with the dead acts and fatigued performers who have given up before making it through the gauntlet. And that's exactly what makes Rivers and Martin so interesting, so informative, and in the end so famous - their rele[...] The road to success is littered with the dead acts and fatigued performers who have given up before making it through the gauntlet. And that's exactly what makes Rivers and Martin so interesting, so informative, and in the end so famous - their relentless pursuit of unique excellence and their refusal to follow the herd. memoir, writers, self-help, book-reviews, essays Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/celebrity-fame-tenacity-writers/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/celebrity-fame-tenacity-writers/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:06:27 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=514 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/celebrity-fame-tenacity-writers/feed/ 4 0:08:19 Furthermore, famous people exert enormous power in our culture, and unless I break down and read their memoirs, I'm going to remain ignorant about them. So when an online friend suggested that Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up" was authentic and intr[...] Furthermore, famous people exert enormous power in our culture, and unless I break down and read their memoirs, I'm going to remain ignorant about them. So when an online friend suggested that Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up" was authentic and introspective I decided to give it a try. It turned out to be an excellent book about a boy's climb from ordinary childhood to international fame. Celebrity Jerry Waxler no no