by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I discovered Gail Caldwell’s first book, the memoir A Strong West Wind, in a rare moment of serendipitous book-buying in an old-fashioned bookstore. Reading other people’s memoirs that year while writing my own, I selected A Strong West Wind because I was...
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 | Feb 7, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
Over at the impressive online magazine Guernica, Deb Olin Unferth’s “Memoir Manifesto” is an inspiring rejoinder to Neil Genzlinger’s recent assault on memoir (detailed here). Unferth makes a compelling case for the splintering of autobiography...