Category Archives: lifewriting

Memoir: “Be intimate, or it’s nothing”

Posted on February 8, 2016 by moonbridgebooks

George Hodgson, author of Bettyville, came to town. I didn’t reserve a seat but came early enough to grab one of the few chairs left against the back wall of the library auditorium. Mr. Hodgson likes St. Louis and thinks … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo Your Memoir

Posted on November 2, 2015 by moonbridgebooks

National Novel Writing Month is now! But, instead of writing fiction, feel free to challenge yourself to work hard on your memoir. Write anything, just write, and write every day. The point is to get something down on paper – … Continue reading →

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Is your memoir worth the time to write?

Posted on March 8, 2015 by moonbridgebooks

“Worth the time to write?” I repeated—raising my voice into a question—when a man said to me at a conference where I was speaking that most people didn’t have a memoir that was worth their time to write. “Not only … Continue reading →

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