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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Write your memoir “on the cutting edge of what’s going on in God’s heart”

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  “In Raise Up A Standard—A Challenge to Christian Writers , Michael Phillips asks, ‘Do we want to write the sensational or the signi...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

More inspiration for beginners: And then I remembered the weevils . . . .

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“I didn’t know you had these pictures, Mom!” Matt’s face beamed. He grinned his biggest grin, spellbound by the photos he held in his hands....
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

More tips for beginners: “Each photo has a prologue, a theme, and an afterword.”

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  A young man I know was looking at pictures his friend took of their childhood neighborhood thousands of miles away.   He held up just ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

More tips for beginners: The power of photos

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  “Listen to the music of the carousel, The tinglelingle, lingle of the ice cream bell, The splishing and the splashing of a moonlight s...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Encouragement for beginners: “Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”

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  “First drafts are a writer’s agony and ecstasy,” writes K.M. Weiland .   “This is where your glistening ideas spill onto the page. Thi...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

For beginners: How do you start? Where do you start?

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  If you’re a beginning memoirist, and if you’re puzzled about how to start and where to start, this post is for you.   When Lisa Ten...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

“Don’t write words, write music”

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  Recently we've been focusing on ways to craft your memoir's sentences. Why? Because . . .  you want to draw your readers in, you w...