Comments on: Write to celebrate midlife crisis http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/ Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Wed, 16 May 2012 03:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-329 jerrywaxler Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:38:59 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/#comment-329 Hi ybonesy, I appreciate your interest in my blog. It's wonderful connecting with you and Quoinmonkey, hearing about your writing and group, and helping to promote a global community of writers. Jerry Hi ybonesy,

I appreciate your interest in my blog. It’s wonderful connecting with you and Quoinmonkey, hearing about your writing and group, and helping to promote a global community of writers.

Jerry

]]> By: jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-327 jerrywaxler Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:07:03 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/#comment-327 Thanks for your interest in the blog, Marlys. I've ordered your first book and will look for your second. I'm always interested in hearing about people using writing as a tool to reinvent themselves. Thanks for your interest in the blog, Marlys. I’ve ordered your first book and will look for your second. I’m always interested in hearing about people using writing as a tool to reinvent themselves.

]]> By: Marlys Styne (Seniorwriter) http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Marlys Styne (Seniorwriter) Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:31:18 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/#comment-323 Since I'm 74, I can relate to your mother's writing experience very well. That's how I reinvented myself (hence my book title, "Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor"). My new book, coming this fall, is "Seniorwriting: a Brief Guide for Seniors who Want to Write (to Discover, to Heal, to Reinvent, to Share)." Now, I'm an advocate of writing for everyone, especially senior citizens. I'm glad to find someone who is writing about some of the same things. My blogs are "Write your Life!" at http://seniormemoirs.blogspot.com and "Never too Late!" at http://seniorwriter.blogspot.com Since I’m 74, I can relate to your mother’s writing experience very well. That’s how I reinvented myself (hence my book title, “Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor”). My new book, coming this fall, is “Seniorwriting: a Brief Guide for Seniors who Want to Write (to Discover, to Heal, to Reinvent, to Share).”

Now, I’m an advocate of writing for everyone, especially senior citizens. I’m glad to find someone who is writing about some of the same things.
My blogs are “Write your Life!” at http://seniormemoirs.blogspot.com and “Never too Late!” at http://seniorwriter.blogspot.com

]]> By: jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-304 jerrywaxler Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:48:06 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/#comment-304 Sid I love the way you have figured out how to move the story of your life to the next step. I love this aspect of memoir writing so much, I have been tempted to focus exclusively on how writing helps transform the second half of life. If you want to tap into more collective energy about this project, keep an eye on Marc Freedman’s writing, and the website http://www.encore.org. It’s a wave! Sid
I love the way you have figured out how to move the story of your life to the next step. I love this aspect of memoir writing so much, I have been tempted to focus exclusively on how writing helps transform the second half of life. If you want to tap into more collective energy about this project, keep an eye on Marc Freedman’s writing, and the website http://www.encore.org. It’s a wave!

]]> By: ybonesy http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-293 ybonesy Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:12:51 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/#comment-293 <p>When QuoinMonkey and I were together in a series of four Natalie Goldberg workshops that was part of a year-long writing intensive, we met a woman who decided to make letter- and postcard-writing part of her daily practice. The person blossomed before our eyes. We still get postcards from her. I was inspired by her practice, because it was also a way to connect to others through a dying form.</p> <p>Your mother's practice, when she got older, reminded me of this friend. I can believe that your mother's one to two hours each morning of writing had a transformative effect on her life. Wonderful that you got to see it and now share it with us.</p> When QuoinMonkey and I were together in a series of four Natalie Goldberg workshops that was part of a year-long writing intensive, we met a woman who decided to make letter- and postcard-writing part of her daily practice. The person blossomed before our eyes. We still get postcards from her. I was inspired by her practice, because it was also a way to connect to others through a dying form.

Your mother’s practice, when she got older, reminded me of this friend. I can believe that your mother’s one to two hours each morning of writing had a transformative effect on her life. Wonderful that you got to see it and now share it with us.

]]> By: Sid Leavitt http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Sid Leavitt Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:54:34 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/write-to-celebrate-midlife-crisis/#comment-287 Jerry: I love your website, and this latest entry is one of the reasons why. You know, I wrote for 38 years as a newspaper reporter and then as an editor, and some of it was very satisfying, but it wasn't until I wrote an autobiographical book (some of it about me but most of it about other people) that I really, really felt good about writing. And that feeling spills over into the way I feel about living. At 67 and retired, despite the aches and pains and life's inevitable deadlines (we used to joke in the newspaper business about the small difference between 'deadlines' and 'deadliness'), I still enjoy that feeling. Jerry: I love your website, and this latest entry is one of the reasons why. You know, I wrote for 38 years as a newspaper reporter and then as an editor, and some of it was very satisfying, but it wasn’t until I wrote an autobiographical book (some of it about me but most of it about other people) that I really, really felt good about writing. And that feeling spills over into the way I feel about living. At 67 and retired, despite the aches and pains and life’s inevitable deadlines (we used to joke in the newspaper business about the small difference between ‘deadlines’ and ‘deadliness’), I still enjoy that feeling.

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