This is the third in a series of six posts by Matilda Butler. Today in the Tao of Memoir Writing, I’m reflecting on the telling of our life journey. Consider this: The journey begins at the gate or the journey begins in the middle of the garden. Wherever we are appears to be the center. […]
The Power of Journaling
I started journaling during my thirties while my husband, our two sons, and I lived for nineteen months on a remote island in the South Pacific. I felt so isolated there that the best I could do was write long rants every morning before the boys woke up. Happily those rants turned into my first […]
The Journey from Aerospace Writer to Creative Writer
by Madeline Sharples I worked as a writer/editor and proposal manager in the aerospace business for a total of twenty-eight years. I had a reputation for being a good writer so I got some of the plum jobs – working on newsletters, websites, award applications, and even ghostwriting letters for top managers, but the writing […]
So Many Benefits from Journaling
The advice below is excerpted from a piece I published in Inspire Me Today, three years ago. Since then I’ve had numerous articles published in print and e-publications. I’ve also published my YA, Talent, after starting, stopping, revising, reshaping, and adding new strands for years, and I am almost finished with a memoir about getting married […]
Permission Slips
by Jude Walsh Whelley Every Sunday I meet with my tribe of four women writers for a morning of what Eric Maisel calls Deep Writing. It is a lovely, centering time where we sit side-by-side and write. During occasional breaks we share information on craft, submission, and building platform. The shared writing energy keeps us […]
On Writing Women’s Biographical Fiction
Most readers know me as a mystery author, but for the past five or six years, I’ve been indulging my interest in biographical fiction. My first biographical novel, A Wilder Rose, told the story of Rose Wilder Lane, the woman who rewrote the family stories her mother—Laura Ingalls Wilder—had written down. Together, they created the […]
