by Suzette | Jan 31, 2023 | Writing Memoir
When I came out as gay in my fifties, I was desperate to read stories of other women who came to terms with their sexuality later in life and learn how they navigated that life-altering journey. Did they stay in or leave their marriages? Could they find a way to live...
by Barbara | Jan 25, 2023 | Writing Retreats
We’ve been retreating as humans probably since we first got into groups—the lone hunter who goes off to bring home a mastodon, the contemplative who retires to a cave to meditate, and more recently, burned out people who need to step off the spinning hamster wheel and...
by Suzette | Jan 19, 2023 | Writing Memoir
“I’m looking for books that are both completely unique and exactly the same,” an editor from one of the Big 5 publishers said on a podcast. And then she laughed. I laughed too. But now I’ve come to believe that the intersection of “completely unique” and...
by Susanne | Jan 19, 2023 | Writing Memoir
There are obvious differences between writing memoir and fiction, of course. Fiction writers manufacture a story—although that story can be more or less based in fact. Fiction allows a writer a lot of control over what happens and how. In fiction, you can create a...
