Posted in Creative Writing Tips, Hating Your Book, Memoir Writing on May 5th, 2011
When Lisa Kerr was in her early twenties, she entered a “discipleship program” in a Phoenix, Arizona mega-church. As a reverend, she worked for some of the best-known pastors in America. As part of my series, “When You Hate the Book You’re Writing,” about the challenges of writing works that are emotionally difficult, I asked [...]
Posted in Creative Writing Tips, Memoir Writing on Nov 18th, 2010
Yesterday I introduced the writer, Darah Zeledon, mother of 5 small children. Today we continue our interview with this Warrior Mom, who manages to slip in time nearly every day to work on her memoir or add a post to her blog. What do you do when an idea hits you and you’re otherwise engaged? [...]
Posted in Personal Essays on Oct 20th, 2009
Over the past 8 months or so, I’ve written more than 150 articles about writing careers for Examiner.com. It’s been tons of fun. Writing my Examiner.com articles leads me to folks I wouldn’t have access to otherwise. But it can’t compete with the satisfaction I get from teaching and writing about Tools & Tactics for [...]
