Why would anyone want to read your memoir? How to put yourself on the page in your full glorious flawed complexity @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/w... #memoir #creativewriting #writingtips
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How to create a “Person on the Page” when that person is you By Dinty W. Moore I’ve been teaching memoir since dinosaurs roamed the planet (maybe an exaggeration) and one consistent challenge I see…
Memoir writers: How can you signal the potent emotional stakes of your story without resorting to boring explanations and flat telling? Make the stakes clear __and__ hook your reader by remembering the lesson of the old barn. Join my webinar this Wednesday.
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Roz Morris
"Memoir is often less about the events, and more about the mind who is experiencing them. " ~ Roz Morris / @rozmorris.bsky.social
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Dropping our readers into a particular time, a particular place, populated by particular people, is essential to making readers care about our stories. Learn to create vibrant, convincing reality on t...
Learn why exposition and explanation are not only unnecessary, they weaken the reader’s engagement with the scene. And how to fix it!
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"Be awake enough to see where you are at any given time and how that is beautiful and has poetry inside.” ~ Jeff Buckley
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." ~Tenzin Gyatso, The Dalai Lama
"... we invent our own beauty and our own paths and our own crooked, weird ways of doing things, but that they're not nothing and they matter, too." ~ Lidia Yuknavitch / @lidiamiles.bsky.social
