Editors
When writing a book or even a shorter length piece like an essay it is useful to consider working with an editor. But where to
Author: Susanna Barlow
Prompts and Exercises
Some days it’s hard to get the creative juices flowing. Words seem boring and everything you write feels useless. On those days, it helps to
The Victim / Empath Archetype
The root of the Victim archetype is a fear that you cannot survive or will not survive. Not just physical survival but the survival of
Lessons and Motivations
To understand and identify an archetype you must first understand your own motivations for your behaviors. The action isn’t enough to accurately identify an archetype,
Emotions in Writing
Writing memoir is challenging enough but conveying emotion is one of the more difficult things to do. Emotion is felt in the body. To convey
Active and Passive Patterns
All archetypes have passive and active expressions. We all tend toward one or the other. A good way to think of this is introversion and
Beginnings, Middles and Endings
A beginning, a middle, and an end. This seems obvious that all stories are made up of these three parts. It is fundamental though to
The Punch List
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
The Flashback in Memoir
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
Setting the Scene in Memoir
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
Plot Devices for Memoir
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
Imitation and Inspiration
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