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In the three-year course of writing this memoir, I engaged my nieceJoy Rittenhouse three times to take photos. First, I needed a set of photos for the blog and other social media. Then, when I went from brown to grey hair, I needed new photos. And, most recently, as I finished the manuscript and needed a photo for the author page. I also wanted a group of photos that would highlight one of the main “characters” in the book — the farm called the Home Place that is now a bed and breakfast called Forgotten Seasons.
Jowita Bydlowska’s stunningly candid book takes honesty to a point that may verge on self-harm
We can’t avoid it. It’s all over the news and in conversations: wars, random shootings, gang rapes, knifings and, most recently, the Boston Marathon bombings.
This post is about the core of writing: Life. Soul. Integrity. It's an exploration of how to unlock creativity and overcome writer's block.
Studies indicate that children learn resilience when they hear what their relatives before them have faced.
Just happened to notice in my Web wanderings today that the magazine’s The Best Life Stories is free on iTunes or the iBook app this week.
Post by Theo Pauline Nestor: When How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed came out, people would sometimes say to me, “Writing this must have been very therapeutic for you.”
If you struggle with journaling on a regular basis, or your journaling feels parched of life, as though instead of writing about your day you’re attempting to cross an entire desert, stop. Instead of pushing forward, filled with a thirst to do something “writerly,” break out of your routine by taking a sensuality break. Yes, I do mean sensuality.
The characters in a memoir inevitably feed on the blood of the living.
There are so many tiny, beautiful, funny, tragic moments in your life -- how are you going to remember them all? Director Cesar Kuriyama shoots one second of video every day as part of an ongoing project to collect all the special bits of his life.
When I went to Stanford last week to interview Tory Burch about her amazing story (Young woman with no formal education in design and no MBA builds a $2.5 billion business from scratch in less than a decade!), the University folks asked me if I would let them interview me about, yes, the art of storytelling.
Posts with art journaling on Personal Development Journaling Blog provides inspirational and informational articles for sticking to a daily pen to page Journaling for the Self of It™ Practice.
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Interested in learning more about personal narrative and memoir? Here are some books you might want to read....
How can you better remember that perfect day with your family? Psychologist and author Charles Fernyhough on the tricks and limitations.
By you taking the risk to share your humanity, your vulnerabilities, faux pas, and imperfections, you allow the listener or reader to acknowledge theirs with courage and compassion. You also make it easier for them to recognize and admit to unproductive attitudes and behaviors that are holding them back, things about themselves they would not acknowledge if directly confronted.
Life story work is one of the key therapeutic approaches to working with adopted or fostered children. While it sounds simple, there is much more to this work than producing photo albums or memory boxes for children.
... how should you, a memoirist, write about your people and their baggage?
We are very pleased to offer the Six-Word Memoir Contest sponsored by Writer.ly. Can you write your memoir in six words or less?
I recently attended the first annual meeting of the national Coalition to Transform Advanced Illness Care (C-TAC). Most striking was this: amidst the high-level discussion about healthcare systems changes, public engagement and policy improvements, the over-riding theme wasstories. The personal stories from the speakers and panelists about the death of a loved one.
"Our stories give shape to our inchoate, disparate, fleeting impressions of everyday life."
When I started writing Replacement Child, I had a vague idea that I wanted to tell my parents’ story of how they survived losing their daughter in a horrific plane crash, and saw their other daughter through years of reconstructive surgery after being critically burned in the resulting fire. As I wrote, over four years, the story turned sideways and upside down to expose perspectives that I had never known. I found myself alternately wrapped in my mother’s struggle, my father’s grief, and my surviving sister’s courageous recovery over her lifetime. At times, I even felt the presence of my sister who died before I was born. Finally, through a slow revelation, I found my own role in the story.
What story do you tell most at parties and other social functions to impress/amaze people?
If someone were to ask you what your most important life lessons have been, what would you say? And why?
The article, “The Centenarian’s Secret,” in the 5-Minute Memoir section of February’s Writer’s Digest Magazine caught my attention.
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