by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
This is the cover of the new edition of the Griffith Review, “Such is Life”, which arrived in my Brooklyn mailbag yesterday and will be available on August 1. I am thrilled to be a contributor to this memoir-themed issue, which features the fine company of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 22, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
My memoir-related internet meanderings from the week ending Friday 22 July: From the Paris Review blog, Paradise Lost – a wonderful example of the personal essay in just under 1,500 sculpted words from Vanessa Blakeslee, about her relationship with a man...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 18, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
I’ve noticed a lot of people arriving on my blog after searching for tips about word count in memoir. I wrote about this some time ago but feel the need to clarify a few points. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some magic number of words per...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
A handful of things I found interesting and relevant to memoir-writers from my tour around the “intertubes” this week: The Me My Child Mustn’t Know – Dani Shapiro’s efforts to prevent her 12 yr-old son finding out about her first memoir,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 13, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
Despite my best efforts, my inbox always remains stuffed with newsletters for and about writing, which contain more intriguing links than I could ever have time to click on, let alone read. Mostly I sigh and remind myself that I really should cull the number of email...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
From the virtual corridors of SheWrites comes a handy post, How to Organize a Blog Tour For Your New Book’s Release by published author Nava Atlas. A blog tour is a virtual book tour to promote your book using relevant blogs around the internet. Instead of the...