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Sometimes you just need to get away

November 18, 2019

I spent 36 hours over the weekend doing nothing but working on manuscript revisions. Well, I did sleep and take …

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The big “O”: Organizing your memoir

July 12, 2019

So you’ve written a ton of stuff for your memoir. You have oodles and oodles of words. You’ve been writing …

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One phrase you don’t need to write in memoir

January 9, 2015

Are you using these two simple words that only serve to create distance between you and the reader?

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