Rhythm, which often goes undetected on the surface, is vitally important in the readers’ engagement….
CRAFT: Rhythmic Writing and the Music of Language by E.H. Jacobs
Category: Columns
WRITING LIFE: Memoir Fail: On Writing Without Emotional Insight by Jodi Sh. Doff
….Looking back, I saw I was writing about a time in my life when I didn’t care about the narrator—myself—either.
WRITING LIFE: How Writing Islands Helped me Create my Own Archipelago, my Memoir by Colleen Clemens
Somewhere along the way, I convinced myself that writing a book was for other people.
CRAFT: Embracing the Spiral: A Writer’s Permission to Jump Timelines by Rebecca Beardsall
Rebecca Beardsall talks memoir timelines.
WRITING LIFE: The Writing Instructor Trio: Confidant, Coach & Critic by Olga Katsovskiy
I don’t think instructors talk enough about the emotional toll it takes, how hard it is to juggle and hold up all those voices on the table.
CRAFT: The Accidental Shamanic Journey: Listening to the Stories of our Images by Tara DaPra
when a powerful message appears by way of a potent detail, you must not push it away. You must listen.
WRITING LIFE: Notes on a Debut: Engaging Community Through a Book Launch by Melanie Pappadis Faranello
Connecting people through self-expression is something I care deeply about.
WRITING LIFE: 20 Minutes of Daily, Focused Freewriting is Responsible for My Sanity By Helene Kiser
I admire writers who have the stamina to spend daily disciplined hours on their writing. That’s not me.
CRAFT: The Things I Carried Out of Suburbia: Using Classic Structure to Write Memoir by Lori Lackland
Some of us don’t write just to document; we write to survive.
CRAFT: An Erasure Essay is Really Just a Mixtape by Kristine Langley Mahler
A mixtape is a compilation telling the narrative you want to tell.
