Category Archives: memoir writing

Slices of Life memoir writing with Cheryl Stahle

I invited freelance writer Cheryl Butler Stahle to guest post on my blog today about how she found her passion for memoir. I discovered Cheryl on memoir-writer Sonia Marsh’s Gutsy Indie Publishers Facebook group, an informative and supportive group for … Continue reading

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Tips for Writing Your Memoir by Marion Woodfork Simmons

For this week’s post I have found a gem of an article on Kathy Hansen’s Personal Storytelling news paper.li (a story-telling news aggregator I follow). Marion Woodfork Simmons, of Woodfork Genealogy, has a gem of a blog post from June 24, Telling … Continue reading

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Breaking the Code: A father-daughter memoir of WWII

Karen Fisher-Alaniz discovered a secret. On her father’s 81st birthday, he handed her a stack of letters he had written to his parents when he served in WWII. She had heard some old war stories, but they didn’t explain why … Continue reading

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