Creative Nonfiction
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How to Use Family Photos to Fuel Your Writing (Part 2)
In this post, I continue my exploration of using childhood photos as a catalyst to writing memoir by experimenting with analyzing some of my own childhood photos. The first task when faced with stacks of family photos that are largely alike in their presentation of a single person or people, most often facing the camera… Continue reading
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How to Use Family Photos to Fuel Your Writing (Part 1)
Memories provide a catalog of subjects for your writing. Especially if your genre is memoir, delving deeply into your past is a natural way to find your subject and focus. If you write about family, specifically about your relationships with your parents or siblings, tapping into your earliest memories can reap a storehouse of material. … Continue reading
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When in Rome: A (Somewhat) Lyrical Tribute to the Lyric Essay
It defies strict definition. It encompasses a variety of forms. It demands more from the reader than other types of essays. It affords writers a measure of freedom that some find daunting. The lyric essay: the most artistic, the most poetic, the least informative, the least reliant on narrative conventions of all the styles of… Continue reading
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Point of View, Times Two
You’ve probably been warned not to do it. Astute and well-intentioned English instructors have routinely cautioned students against using second-person address of the reader as you in academic and scholarly writing. Doing so is too informal, they have said; it creates an inappropriate familiarity between writer and reader. Among fiction writers, the use of second-person… Continue reading
Do you write about yourself and your experiences? Do you write about traumatic events in your life? Or, do you struggle to find time and motivation to write?
If so, this blog is for you.
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