by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 10, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’ve recently discovered The Review Review, which, well, reviews the latest issues of literary journals and interviews their editors. It’s such a perfect idea I wonder why nobody thought of starting a publication like this before. It fills a need that...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 30, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
This week, publishing expert and Writers Digest blogger Jane Friedman published this list of useful resources for people writing memoir. When I finally got around to clicking through it – this morning – one particular article led to a minor epiphany in the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
Writing teacher and author Lynette Benton, who writes the much-visited Polish and Publish blog, recently asked me for my thoughts on the differences between memoir and family history. While the question was prompted by a student asking for clarification during one of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
A stinging but timely consideration of what makes an excellent memoir in “The Problem with Memoirs” by Neil Genzlinger in this weekend’s New York Times Book Review, published online today. Genzlinger, a staff editor at the newspaper, is fed up with...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 11, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Popular
Authors often ask me about “average” word lengths for their manuscripts. While there’s no reliable statistic, here’s an interesting post on word count from the blog of former agent Colleen Lindsay. The post lists a dizzying number of genres and...