I resisted the notion of a newsletter for a long time. Mostly because I was uncertain. Aside from my memoir, what could I say? What value could I offer to…
writing process
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…
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…