Category: Columns

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.

A mixtape is a compilation telling the narrative you want to tell.

Music can be closely tied to our memories, and this can be a boon when we write about our past experiences.

It may seem old-fashioned these days, but my daily writing practice revolves around a personal blog.

Challenging as it is, we writers can meet the firehose of reactivity with equanimity.

Collecting, or notetaking, was rigorous and compulsive but it forced me to deeply note events as I lived them…