This prompt seems simple, but let it take you where the story needs to go. This prompt comes from a dynamic TedTalk by the writer Sakinah Hofler, “How to Use Creative Writing to Bear Witness.” The prompt: Part 1: Make a list of sentences, each one beginning: The time when……… Think about times when you […]

This series by non-fiction writer Beth Ann Fennelly offers tips and ideas for writing sequential “micro-memoirs”: Part 1: Making Much of the Moment: A Guide to Writing the Micro-Memoir: https://www.writermag.com/improve-your-writing/nonfiction/micro-memoir/ Part 2: Ten Tips for Tiny Truths: https://www.writermag.com/improve-your-writing/nonfiction/ten-tips-tiny-truths/ Among Fennelly’s Tips, micro-memoirs: need great titles use humor make writing more like “play” and privilege discovery […]

National Public Radio’s show “Talk of the Nation” featured memoir writer Marion Roach Smith offering her advice about writing memoir: Tips for Telling Your Story Among writers and advice mentioned in the article: “Flannery O’Connor said that anyone who survives childhood has enough material to write for the rest of her life.” “What Ernest Hemingway […]