Pictured below are SCN's experienced coaches, with the questions or topic areas they are prepared to address. You'll find brief bios for most of these coaches on our presenters page.
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Susan Wittig Albert:
- Using your journal as "research material" for memoir
- Using your family's history in your own story
- Incorporating a sense of place in your story
(For information about Susan Albert, visit her website)
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Kendra Bonnett:
- Successful Book Marketing
- Publishing Choices
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Nita Lou Bryant:
- blogging
- pitching to newspaper editors
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Matilda Butler:
- Family Stories and Collective Memoirs
- Podcasting for Authors
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Heather Cariou:
- Writing Through Grief or Anger
- Setting up a Writing Ritual and Jumpstarting Your Daily Work
- Strong Beginnings: Bring Your First Page or Two for Feedback
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Helen Ginger:
- Blogging and Tweeting
- Conducting in-person interviews
- Targeting your interview questions
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Katherine Misegades:
- Designing and producing print publications
- Customizing and maintaining a blog or website
- Telling your story through fiber arts (to see some of Katherine's fiber art, visit her blog, Knitting, Writing, and Other Joys)
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Linda Joy Myers:
- Writing as a healing path
- Managing difficult family truths in memoir
- Memoir and psychological issues
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Janet Riehl:
- Blogging
- Audio Books
- Poetry
- Family Stories
- Creative Process
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Jane Ross:
- Editing (tips for editing your own writing, how to do peer editing, and working with a "story doctor" or editor to polish your stories)
- Self publishing
- Facilitating a writing circle
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Carolyn Scarborough:
- Creating a 2010 regular writing practice and plan
- Melting writer's block
- Memoir writing as spiritual practice
- Writing from the heart
- Personal Essay
(For information about Carolyn Scarborough, visit her website)
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Dawn Thurston:
- How should I handle family skeletons and other prickly people? Give me your problem and I'll give you some options you can live with.
- How should I begin my memoir? Describe your story and I'll tell you how it should begin.
- Quick, constructive critique of a page of your writing
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Susan J. Tweit:
- Great Beginnings and Endings
- Recognizing Your Writing Voice
- Producing Your Own Podcasts
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Aditi Worcester:
- How to translate your written memoirs onto Video
- Audio / Video tips and pointers
- Creating a Questionnaire
- How to package a Video Interview
- Avenues to share you videos online / in the community
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