Category: Creative Process/Craft

The Form of a Memoir

Here are some of the nuts and bolts I am dealing with at the moment. I am trying to learn how to write a memoir.…

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We Writers Have Us Management Schmucks Beat

I have heard that corporate managers make hundreds of decisions a day. Some are said to suffer from “decision fatigue”. They make so many decisions…

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Reading Aloud to Myself

The Friday before Mother’s Day my wife and I had her parents and mine over for dinner. I grilled chicken breasts, we had asparagus and…

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Like a Conversation with an Old Friend

I find writing to be relaxing. If and when I find a couple of hours of quiet (most days I write amongst the noise) and…

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[Not] Endless Possibilities

I’ve heard creative nonfiction writers say that one of the things they find intimidating about writing fiction is that fiction has endless possibilities, and that…

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