Write Part of My Memoir in November, Day 8: On Confidence, Part 1
Writing is part inspiration, part perspiration, and part confidence. I’m pretty good at the first two, but the third always proves very slippery.
Write Part of My Memoir in November, Day 7: Woo Woo
A cynical memoirist has a woo-woo experience. It didn’t make me give up drinking or anything but maybe it made my book a bit kinder.
WriPaMyMeNo, Day 6: The Dead Can’t Dispute Your Version of Events
My parents are no longer alive, so it’s too bad my childhood wasn’t worth writing about. Many of the people I’m dissing are still kicking.
Write Part of My Memoir in November, Day 5: Curse You, Mary Karr!
Avoiding memoirs, I bought a book on memoir writing. What I learned from it surprised me.
Write Part of My Memoir in November, Day 4: Memoir vs Autobiography
The line between autobiography and memoir is often blurred, and I’m not sure where Getting Naked for Money fits. Should I call it a memography? An automoir?
Write Part of My Memoir in November, Day 3: What’s My (Desire) Line?
Welcome to Day 3 of my scattershot look at the memoir-writing process. When I started writing Getting Naked for Money, I had what I thought was a pretty good idea of how to structure the book. I would focus on only one part of my life, the years that involved travel editing and writing, and move the story along chronologically, […]
Write Part of My Memoir in November, Day 2: Researching Your Past
Memory is notoriously unreliable. Reconstructing one’s past for a memoir takes a surprising amount of research.
Write Part of My Memoir in November (WPOMMIN) Challenge, Day 1
Call it Write Part of My Memoir in November or Post-Kickstarter Kick Myself in the Butt Month. Or use a silly acronym. Just read it, okay?
I’m Single. And I’m Celebrating.
It’s Unmarried and Single Americans Week, and people who chose to live on their own have plenty of reasons to celebrate. Here are some of mine.
Contest: Help Me Write a Funny Sex Scene for My Memoir
Those of you who know about my successful Kickstarter campaign know I’m a big fan of crowdfunding. Now I’ve decided to try something new: crowdwriting. Some Background I’ve been going over the chapters I wrote of Getting Naked for Money in preparation for sending as much of the book as I’ve completed to an editor. A few people […]
My Muse Madeleine: How My Dog Helped Me Crowdfund My Memoir
Every dog needs a job. If you’re an author, considering getting yours to help with a crowdfunding campaign.
Writing, Red-Pencilling & Online Dating: Sex and the Single Editor
Since I completed a successful Kickstarter campaign, I’ve been on another mission: I want to take the stigma out of self publishing. Even more ambitious than doing a Kickstarter, eh? I realize I can’t single-handedly change negative perceptions of books that lie outside the traditional publishing realm. I can, however, try to make my book a worthy ambassador from the […]
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