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 | Jun 29, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
If you’re working on a memoir, or any long-form prose for that matter, chances are you’ve spent a large chunk of time sitting alone in front of your keyboard or with a pen poised over your notebook. Either way, your words grow into sentences, which turn...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
On book writing coach Lisa Tener’s excellent blog I recently found her interview with novelist and writing teacher Chrystal Wilkinson about What Nonfiction Authors Can Learn From Fiction. In short, she recommends that nonfiction writers write scenes. No matter...