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Blogtalk: Literature by email and 3 articles for writers

July 15, 2011
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I recently discovered DailyLit.com. Get this: DailyLit sends books in short installments via e-mail or RSS. They offer both classic and contemporary books for free. You can read each installment (which arrive according to the schedule you set) in under 5 minutes, and you can receive additional installments immediately on demand. They have a lot [...]

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Blogtalk: Choice of Voice and Writing in Parallel

June 24, 2011
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Today’s Blogtalk brings two very different writing-related blog posts to your attention. The first post, “A Writer’s Voice Is All About Choice,” is by Mark Nichol with DailyWritingTips.com. My favorite quote from the article is, “Many writers are inspired by an established author who they model their own style after, but the key to success [...]

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Blogtalk: Using Music, Memories, and Writing

June 10, 2011
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I’ve written before (over at womensmemoirs.com) about using music to set the mood while writing. Yesterday’s blog post by Sharon Lippincott, “The Power of Song,” is a great example of how music can pull memories from the past into the present. Sharon’s experience resonated deeply with me; listening to “Hey Jude” by The Beatles still [...]

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Blogtalk: Must-read Memoirs, Secrets, and The Revision Process

June 3, 2011
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Interested in memoir? Carol Brown wrote to tell me about the list of memoirs she posted over at onlinecollege.org, along with brief synopses of each book. I haven’t read any of them, but they all seem interesting. Hmm… just what I need. More titles for my “to read” list. If you’re wondering about whether or [...]

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Blogtalk: Writing and Publishing Memoir

May 27, 2011

OKAY, this is about an older blog (ancient … as in April for heaven’s sake) at Writer’s Digest about memoir writing, titled “Back to Basics: Writing & Publishing Memoir.” But Jane includes so many wonderful links to other articles, it took me this long to read it, and I just had to pass it on, [...]

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Blogtalk: Memory and Moments

April 15, 2011

Yesterday, Shirley Hershey Showalter shared a fascinating TED video (re-posted below) on her blog 100 Memoirs. The video, a talk by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, is about the difference between what he calls the “experiencing self” (that part of us that experiences life moment by moment) and the “memory self” (that part of us that [...]

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Blogtalk: The Redeeming Power of Writing

March 25, 2011
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SCIENTIFIC studies have proven that writing helps us heal. In today’s blog post about her conversation with Mark Matousek, Linda Joy Myers highlights the redemptive powers of writing, as well. My favorite quote from the post is, “… the healing power of writing guides us toward redemption. [Mark] says that first we should write to [...]

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