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How to Write a Personal Essay: 8 Common Mistakes to Avoid
We have been talking about writing memoirs for most of the month so I thought we could wrap up May with The Personal Essay. Chat will be closed on Wednesday May 27 through Sunday May 31st I have lifted some info from The Write Life. **I realize a previous topic on what not to do…
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Black Sheep & Angry Birds
I haunt a few Memoir Writers Groups on Facebook and discovered many people feel compelled to write because they consider themselves a black sheep and simply want someone to validate and understand them.
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Memoir Month
May is Memoir Month at the Writer’s Chatroom. We are getting a bit of a late start. Last chat, we talked a little about writing a 500 word segment on some memorable event in our life. We also talked about a Memoir being different from an Autobiography. Let’s talk about creative ways to tell our…
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Where is Your Muse?
As parts of the world begin to reopen instead of taking time for reflection, wake up your muse and tell her you want to start looking forward.
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BYOP – Bring Your Own Poetry
Thirteen’s anomalous – not that, not this: Not folded bud, or wave that laps a shore, Or moth proverbial from the chrysalis. Is the one age defeats the metaphor.