Category Archives: writing skills

Memoir Voice: Keeping the ghost out of ghostwriting

Posted on October 6, 2019 by moonbridgebooks

Are you writing or editing someone else’s memoir? I am celebrating after finishing the difficult editing of an ESOL memoir. ESOL means English as Second or Other Language, and in this case it might be a fourth language out of … Continue reading →

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Memoir: Writing the past imperfect

Posted on July 7, 2019 by moonbridgebooks

Is your past perfect? Of course not, and that just means you’ve had a life. That’s the stuff some really good memoirs are made of. Even if we don’t have big stories of past troubles, we are not perfect, and … Continue reading →

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A journal is not a (good) book

Posted on January 15, 2017 by moonbridgebooks

Here’s something different:  Notes From My Phone* a self-portrait in her twenties is a compilation of notes Michelle Junot wrote on her cell phone’s notepad app. She wrote during her college years, posting her thoughts and prayers and grocery lists … Continue reading →

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