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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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Sonia Marsh tells all about paradise in Freeways to Flip-Flops memoir

Posted on September 30, 2012 by moonbridgebooks

Have you ever dreamed of getting away from it all? Leaving the rat race, retiring somewhere where the breeze is gentle off the ocean and time stands still? Sonia Marsh did it. She and her husband plucked up their boys … 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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