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No memoir? More on writing truth as historical fiction
Last week I heard Chris Bohjalian talk about Sandcastle Girls, his novel about the Armenian genocide. A year after its release, the paperback version is out, and Mr. Bohjalian is still very excited, very passionate, about the most important book he … Continue reading
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Memoir writing shares elements of fiction
Yesterday The Writer’s Lens blog, which “brings fiction into focus,” featured my guest post on how writing memoir is actually quite similar to writing fiction. No, you don’t get to make stuff up! Thanks to T.W Fendley, author of the … Continue reading
Have the guts to write, the smarts to edit
I finished editing a memoir this past week and celebrated. Celebrated my job being done, but also celebrated the writer, a woman whose native language is not English. Astonishing to me, her spelling was near perfect, better than Spellcheck, which, … Continue reading
