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Family stories are so precious, but so often they can go unshared and or only partially remembered or understood. They can provide precious insights into our histories, both shared within our immediate family and how our families fit in the
The development stage of writing a book can be daunting. You have all these ideas, many of them still murky and inchoate, and you’re working towards giving them shape. There are so many unknowns, so it’s hard to know what
Our hearts are bursting! Our lashes are fluttering! Butterflies in our stomachs! Love is in the air…and so are a lot of clichés and sappy, chocolate-covered metaphors. When we write about love, we risk enducing eye-rolls from our readers with
If you write a thousand words a day, you can write a book in about two months. This seems like a rigid, no-debate-about-it kind of fact. It’s math, after all. Words are easy to count, so it seems like a
Writers tend to be very susceptible to the double-edged sword of New Year’s. On one hand, you have all this renewed energy and determination to really get it done this time. You have been thinking about it for so long.
If you haven’t heard, the myth of the solitary writer has been busted. All writers need some kind of support, and in this digital era, that support is more readily available than ever before. So available, in fact, that it
We’ve discussed mistake after mistake memoir writers make frequently in this blog and on our channel because we hate to see writers struggle and books go unfinished. We’ve talked about the mistakes we see from trying to go it alone
Seeing a book all the way through to the shelf takes enormous time and labor. Most authors in contemporary publishing climes know that at some point, they will need to invest in their book project. Investment can take many forms,
When you picture an outline, you might harken back to school days and shiver at the thought of all those Roman numerals and nit-picky formatting requirements. Many people associate outlines with stifled creativity or cookie-cutter essays. But outlining a long
A memoir is telling a real story from your life, but it’s actually quite a bit more than that. Crafting a memoir that resonates requires more than recounting events—it demands a well-defined, powerful message that runs like a spine through
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