I usually remember the anxiety dreams. I wasn’t expecting dreams and writing to merge. I still remember the nightmare when I was five years old. A roving crash of rhinoceroses…
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My First Workshop: Complete Your Memoir Proposal!
My first workshop is about to begin and I’m ready to share the 411! I DO: Completing Your Memoir Proposal in 2021 How do you finish a memoir proposal amidst…
Craziness on a Cracker: A Brief, Exciting, Recap
Life here has truly been a bit of craziness on a cracker. I’m embarrassed at the lack of updates I’ve shared. And embarrassed is putting it mildly. I’ve been in…
More Writer Distractions? Ugh! I Can’t Focus!
Major revisions to the memoir are done and everything is in the hands of my beta-readers. I’ve tasked myself with working on the proposal for that memoir, hoping to get…
Sorrow at the Death of a Pet
Butters is the third of our cats that my husband and I have lost, and I am here to share what is likely already sadly obvious to other pet-owners: The…
Baby’s First Article
My published article had to be a fluke, I thought. I had just completed a massive revision to my memoir, following some advice of the stellar Allison K. Williams, one…
Threshed
About six weeks ago, I sent ten pages from my memoir-in-progress to a writing coach. She and I sat down together about four weeks ago to discuss it. Her primary…
The Letter
I was at a point in the third draft of my memoir where I was stripping away the filters and the omniscience that were consistently a part of my first…
The Memoir
I started writing on September 1st, 2020, and completed my first draft, the vomit draft, on December 31st, 2020. There were 105,269 words ranging over 215 pages, and all of…