Today guest blogger and memoir writing teacher, Dorothy Skarles, is doing double-duty. First she provides a list of ideas to help jump-start your memoir. Then she incorporates one of these ideas with her own life experience to offer an example of how it’s done. Welcome Dorothy. Generating Ideas for Your Memoir To get to the […]
For Writers
15 More Reasons to Blog
In a previous post, Me Blog?, I listed 15 reasons to blog. Now, just forfun, here are an additional 13. To highlight small-time artists with big-time ideas: Roadcarvin.com featuring Todd Duarte’s Charcoal Beige 2006 Custom VF1000F Chopped 998cc. And Poetic Shutterbug. To feature good-will organizations: Holly Van Steyn will soon join the group Up With People on […]
Serendipity
Do you believe in serendipity? While I was writing my first novel I did. No matter where I went, no matter whom I met, it seemed messeges came my way that directly related to the theme and plot of my story. It was eerie. It was mysterious. It was exciting. It made me feel as […]
Back Up your Blog!
Have you backed up your blog? I’m talking about your posts AND your template. If not, do it now. As they say over at WordPress.org: Your database “…contains every post, every comment and every link you have on your blog. If your database gets erased or corrupted, you stand to lose everything you have written. There are many […]
Journal Treasures / Sweet Fluid of Expression
Every so often, I share something I’ve written in one of my journals to let readers in on how the mind of at least one writer works. Here’s an entry from 2003, two years into the writing of my first novel , Between Will and Surrender, and when I was about to start my second, Between Darkness and Dawn. Journal Entry, June 19, 2003 […]
Write About Your Feelings / Bereavement
Guest blogger Dorothy Skarles is back to highlight a subject close to her heart.Bereavement. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, bereavement is a noun; a state or fact of being. But in the post that follows, Dorothy turns it into a verb. By that I mean, Dorothy shares her emotional response to loss in a […]
