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Turn Your Short Pieces Into a Finished Nonfiction Book | Jane Friedman If you’ve amassed a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, and ideas, here’s a step-by-step guide to shaping them into a book.

This is compelling. How many short pieces do I have? So many! Piece by Lara Lillibridge. @laralillibridge.bsky.social #writingcommunity #books #writinghacks #writingquestions
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Sonja Livingston's short, speculative essay, based on her ancestor's experience of the Irish famine, is live on the Brevity Blog. With amazing art by Char Gardner.
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Writing Success Won’t Fix a Damn Thing By Natalie Serianni This past year was one for the record books. As an emerging writer who is quietly becoming established, I’ve had success in teaching and getting essays published, even landing a…

Serianni dispels the myth that writing success will make our lives better. While it may make us more confident, we still live the same lives with the same challenges, loss, grief, and struggles. @dintywmoore.bsky.social #writingcommunity #authors #writersky

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Back from my travels and reunited with my boy, Tiberius 💕
#dogsky #chi-pin #chihuahua #smooshface

Washington DC.

View from my hotel room this morning. Folks gathering for the #peoplesmarch in Philly, joining many happening around the country today.

Spent the day in one of my favorite cities, #Philadelphia, PA! Glad to see that even historic Elfreth’s Alley has a Little Free Library. #booksky #library #books #reading

At the #warhol museum in #Pittsburgh, PA #popart #artsky

It certainly does!

At the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra enjoying #Prokofiev, #Sibelius, and #Debussy — La Mer #classicalmusic #classicalsky #orchestra #symphony

All the ❤️❤️ for poets Michael Mercurio and Robbie Gamble @mwmercurio.bsky.social @robbiegamble.bsky.social

Had a marvelous time at the Lesley University MGA alum reading yesterday! What a talented group of folks.

Just a beautiful honey oat milk latte at Café Nero in Cambridge, MA. Looking forward to seeing Lesley MFA friends tomorrow :-)

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Fear Not: Publishing is Alive and Well — Yes, Even for Memoir and Literary Fiction By Peter Mountford As 2024 draws to a close, I’ve been sifting through the stats on Publisher’s Marketplace for the year and am pleasantly surprised that SO MANY books have been accepted for public…

Don't give up! Your story matters.

In 2024, "267 authors got memoir deals as of December 15th. This is 85% higher than 20 years ago... the past several years have been consistently high, with most years between 279 and 322 memoirs sold annually." #memoir #writingcommunity

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I just like to throw this out there once in a while. There's no reason my dog's name is Tiberius.

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Yes! This switches the paradigm to take the focus off chronology to concentrate on narrative impact.

Mine is chronological, and it's just as effective. It works for whatever structure you need.

If you're stuck on #memoir structure, I found Nash's Impact Outline to be helpful. It switches the focus from "this happened, & then this happened" to "this happened, & because of that, this happened." Free resources here, too. #writersky #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Her Majesty

I've started using blue text for the parts of my memoir that are reflection--the moments where author Amy is making connections and sharing realizations that the character Amy may not be able to do yet. #memoir #amwriting #writingcommunity #writinghacks #wrtiersky #bluefont

Ménage à Trois: How Writing in Three Forms Illuminated One Essay By Charlotte Wilkins Every couple of months I excavate forgotten fragments of sheer brilliance scrawled on paper scraps, backs of envelopes, and yes, tea-stained napkins, all buried at bottom of my…

It's easy for me to get hyperfocused on #writing goals. I forget that so much magic can be discovered by playing around, experimenting with different genres, just seeing what happens. #amwriting #writingcommunity #memoir #writinghacks @dintywmoore.bsky.social

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93 resilient writers and counting! Still room for more--let me know if you'd like to be added to the pack. Don't forget to click through and follow everybody.
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Sick of Your Memoir? 5 Hacks to Make it Feel New Again By Katie Bannon So you’ve finished a(nother) draft of your memoir…now what? If you’re anything like me, you’ve reread your words so many times they barely make sense anymore. Your prose might be go…

My favorite idea here is taking a memoir you love and figuring out what makes it tick. For me, mapping the structure helps a lot. #memoir #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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Impressed with how much there is to to see at the Smith College Museum of Art, including this Rodin sculpture ( Walking Man) #art #rodin #sculpture

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Are Memoirs “Impossible to Sell”? Only If Narrowly Defined By Allison K Williams Last week, Canadian magazine The Walrus published “Memoirs Are Almost Impossible to Sell” by Tajja Isen. “Publishers are turning away from personal stories. Have readers stopp…

Allison K. William responds to The Walrus' article by Tajja Isen about memoir being "impossible to sell." She and Jane Friedman are quoted in the article.
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