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Memoir writing shares elements of fiction

Posted on November 1, 2012 by moonbridgebooks

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 →

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Have the guts to write, the smarts to edit

Posted on July 29, 2012 by moonbridgebooks

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 →

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Boyd Lemon: Daring to dig deep to write a divorce memoir

Posted on August 13, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

Boyd Lemon is a very brave man. I have just finished his memoir, Digging Deep: A Writer Uncovers His Marriages, where he studies the failures of his three marriages and his role in their collapses. Not only does he dive … Continue reading →

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