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		<description><![CDATA[My female friendships are such an integral part of my life and my sanity.  They are my 'other husbands' and they are the ones I call when the laundry basket gets too full and the fridge is empty and my hair is a mess and my kids are driving me crazy.  I can literally call them and just give a good primal scream and they say 'I get it. Say no more.' So I wrote this book for them - the ones I know personally and the ones who I imagine would be my friends if I knew them.  They would get the humor, the ridiculousness, the self-effacing attitude. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-lisa-fineberg-cook-pt2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Clown story inspires six writing prompts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider Sean Toner's award-winning "Head Clown," a story about a summer when he decided to earn extra money by selling balloons. This piece, fashioned from ordinary events, is clever, engaging, and warm. I looked more closely trying to decipher how he transformed a few memories into a tale that offered so much value. From my inquiry I found six writing prompts that could help any writer find a story-worthy anecdote in their own memory. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/clown-story-writing-prompts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By focusing tightly on each moment he brought me into his world, endowing scenes with color and character, creating depth of emotion and variety of insight. Toner's exquisite attention on small details provided me with so much pleasure I was sorry to see it end. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-style-clown-story/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[My goal is remarkably similar to Jonathan Maberry's. We both want to tell a good story. So I keep listening to this thriller writer and keep learning lessons about the relationship between life and story. For example, in a previous discussion he told me that flaws in real people prepare him to write deeper characterization in his novels. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-lessons-zombies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler This is part two of an interview with Dee Dee Phelps, singer in the sixties duo, Dick and Dee Dee and author of the memoir Vinyl Highway, Singing with Dick and Dee Dee. To see my earlier &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-with-60s-celeb-dee-dee-phelps-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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