by Memoir Mentor on December 16, 2010
She walked into my class about eight years ago, Gene and her daughter, Mia. Gene was in her mid-eighties then, and she wanted to enroll in one of my memoir writing classes. “I think she belongs in your advanced class,” Mia said. “She’s pretty good.” Little did I know just how good. When she read [...]
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by Memoir Mentor on August 8, 2010
Writing is a difficult, lonely occupation, one that resurrects all kinds of insecurities. Is our writing any good, or are we just laboring under some self-delusion? Do we have anything interesting to say? Does the world need one more book? Surely our time be better spent doing something else…anything else. I have these thoughts, and I know my [...]
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by Memoir Mentor on January 29, 2009
Thirty-nine of my students wrote stories last spring that have been published in an anthology called A Place Called Home. All of the stories focus on some aspect of home and are organized in the book under the following categories: My Childhood Home, Playing House, A Home Away from Home, Homes through the Years, Making [...]
