Category: Cultural community
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Making memories, remembering memories, writing memories
This eight hour workshop immersed us in each other’s stories.
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A Healthy Community Needs a Healthy Writer’s Group
A regional writing group in which I participate recently asked me to contribute to an application for a 501c3 status as a non-profit community organization. Since this is a topic about which I have been passionate for years, I had a number of ideas, that I had never written them all down in one place.…
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Let Your Memoir Take You to the Fourth Step
Now, as I study memoir writing, I believe I have stumbled upon another connection with the Twelve Steps. The Fourth Step says, “We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” The goal of taking this inventory is to replace vague sorrows of “having messed up,” with more detailed information. It’s an important exercise…
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My Day at a Writer’s Conference – or – The Benefits of Showing Up
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…
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Self-image changes in step with society
by Jerry Waxler Henry Louis Gates, author of the memoir “Colored People,” grew up in Piedmont, a small town in the northeastern corner of West Virginia. The town was geographically in a hollow, and through the eyes of a child, looked picturesque, even cozy. In those simpler times in the 1950’s and 60’s, people got…
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