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...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 16, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
Bestselling memoirist Franz Wisner is bullish on the future of memoir as a genre. On Twitter and in the books pages of newspapers I have noticed references to memoir being on the wane, passe, and “so five years ago”. But not in this article. Wisner...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 31, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I was honoured to discover that acclaimed author, public speaker, and spiritual commentator Dr Stephanie Dowrick referred to my memoir, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, in her most recent column for The Good Weekend, the magazine supplement to the...