Some of us don’t write just to document; we write to survive.
CRAFT: The Things I Carried Out of Suburbia: Using Classic Structure to Write Memoir by Lori Lackland
Category: Craft
Our Craft column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.
CRAFT: An Erasure Essay is Really Just a Mixtape by Kristine Langley Mahler
A mixtape is a compilation telling the narrative you want to tell.
CRAFT: Music and Meaning in Memoir by John Garrison
Music can be closely tied to our memories, and this can be a boon when we write about our past experiences.
CRAFT: React or Respond: A Writer’s Choose Your Own Adventure by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Challenging as it is, we writers can meet the firehose of reactivity with equanimity.
CRAFT: The Scientific (Memoir) Method by Sarah Boon
Science memoir is an important sub-genre of memoir, and has a lot to offer readers.
CRAFT: Writing with Pictures by E.H. Jacobs
As a writer, I fancy myself a wordsmith, but visual and spatial abilities are areas in which I have never been skilled.
CRAFT: Using the Lesson of the Rose to Write Detail as Narrative by Ellen Blum Barish
Too much detail can distract your reader and slow the pace of the action.
WRITING LIFE: Fit Submitting into Your Writing Life (Without Totally Losing It) by Benjamin Davis
Submitting to lit mags is, you might say, the absolute worst.
CRAFT: Turning Your Story into Art by Anne Gudger
My first draft/not draft of my memoir was pretty much me typing up my journals….
CRAFT: Not Too Small to Matter: Using Form and Structure to Create Meaning by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
I was told my tales were unimportant. I was told little girls should be seen and not heard.
