Memory Writers Network » Writers 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 An agent teaches writers to face their hopes and fears 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 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 My Day at a Writer’s Conference – or – The Benefits of Showing Up 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