Month: September 2021

The challenge for artists of all stripes is to manage the creative impulse with the expectations of others. The musician needs an audience, the chef

The punch list is typically used as a construction term that highlights remaining work or issues on a project that have to be corrected before

Memoir is the art of remembering and retelling, to shape memory into universal truths. This requires a lot of rearranging and organizing the information of

What is the setting of a story? Setting is where the story takes place. It is the location such as a city, the countryside, the

Memoirs are not plot driven, but that doesn’t mean that memoirists shouldn’t work hard to enhance their storytelling with the use of plot devices. Memoirs

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation—Mason Cooley Many artists and that includes writers worry about imitating others in their work. My suggestion is

If you are writing a memoir, you have likely experienced some traumatic experiences. In fact, that may be precisely why you have struggled to tell

Giving and receiving feedback is such an important part of a writer’s life. But so many of us are not great at doing either one. 

Subtext: Implicit meaning that lies below the surface of the words of any text.  All writing can benefit from subtext so that it is layered

Write with integrity. That exhortation might paralyze a writer. Fear looms large. The permanence of words written down can feel like the passing of a

A regular practice of writing is very important to cultivate the skills and stamina that writers need to make a career out of their craft

You are a writer. And like all writers and other creative, you have a unique process. For most of us this process is subconscious and