Comments for Memories and Memoirs http://memoriesandmemoirs.com Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:36:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Are you Writing a Memoir—or True Life Fiction? by Renee Cassese http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2012/01/are-you-writing-a-memoir%e2%80%94or-true-life-fiction/#comment-1250 Renee Cassese Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:36:14 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=16591#comment-1250 Such a great question to mull over. I have been pondering and doing free-writes for my second memoir for many years. I've written out the events I want to include and I've written the whole story as fiction. What happened when I wrote it in a novel is that my writer's imagination ran away with itself. Although anyone involved in that period of my life would recognize the characters I took off and created lots of events that didn't happen. So, well, it was fiction LOL But the questions you present here are helpful in making that decision and one of the reasons I want to write this as memoir is that I do want to help wives of alcoholics know how to handle their spouses and know they can escape their marriages and be okay. Tough decisions, but then no one ever told me being a writer would be easy. Such a great question to mull over. I have been pondering and doing free-writes for my second memoir for many years. I’ve written out the events I want to include and I’ve written the whole story as fiction. What happened when I wrote it in a novel is that my writer’s imagination ran away with itself. Although anyone involved in that period of my life would recognize the characters I took off and created lots of events that didn’t happen. So, well, it was fiction LOL But the questions you present here are helpful in making that decision and one of the reasons I want to write this as memoir is that I do want to help wives of alcoholics know how to handle their spouses and know they can escape their marriages and be okay. Tough decisions, but then no one ever told me being a writer would be easy.

]]> Comment on Writing Memoir in 2012–The Year of the Memoir | Understanding and Conquering Your Inner—and Outer—Critic by Miffy http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2012/01/writing-memoir-in-2012-the-year-of-the-memoir-understanding-and-conquering-your-inner%e2%80%94and-outer%e2%80%94critic/#comment-1248 Miffy Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:41:01 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=16556#comment-1248 From one who was silenced by a mother with NPD I thankyou. Your books has given me wings ! From one who was silenced by a mother with NPD I thankyou. Your books has given me wings !

]]> Comment on Memoir Writing and Creativity in The Year of the Memoir—2012 by Linda Loveland Reid http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2012/01/memoir-writing-and-creativity-in-the-year-of-the-memoir%e2%80%942012/#comment-1246 Linda Loveland Reid Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:26:54 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=16565#comment-1246 Memory...memoir...reflection about your life is an important venture, one from which every person will benefit. You need to know where you have been and why, before you can successfully go foward. When I write a memoir it frees me, let's me put away a bad feeling and relish a good one. I hope many lucky writers will let your 2012 theme carry them into the magic of this reality. Linda Memory…memoir…reflection about your life is an important venture, one from which every person will benefit. You need to know where you have been and why, before you can successfully go foward. When I write a memoir it frees me, let’s me put away a bad feeling and relish a good one. I hope many lucky writers will let your 2012 theme carry them into the magic of this reality. Linda

]]> Comment on How to Write a Powerful Memoir, Part 3: Plot In Memoir by Therese Duncan http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2010/12/how-to-write-a-powerful-memoir-part-3-plot-in-memoir/#comment-1245 Therese Duncan Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:09:37 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=15905#comment-1245 Thanks - really helpful. I have great scenes, no plot. Yet. Thanks – really helpful. I have great scenes, no plot. Yet.

]]> Comment on Writing Memoir in 2012–The Year of the Memoir | Understanding and Conquering Your Inner—and Outer—Critic by Robin http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2012/01/writing-memoir-in-2012-the-year-of-the-memoir-understanding-and-conquering-your-inner%e2%80%94and-outer%e2%80%94critic/#comment-1242 Robin Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:00:07 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=16556#comment-1242 Thank you for this post! A much needed pep talk. Thank you for this post! A much needed pep talk.

]]> Comment on The Year of the Memoir–and Juicy Creativity by Kathleen Pooler http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2012/01/the-year-of-the-memoir-and-juicy-creativity/#comment-1241 Kathleen Pooler Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:04:58 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=16534#comment-1241 Dear Linda Joy, I am so ready for this to be "The Year of the Memoir"! I love the idea here of "inviting creativity." And those luscious-looking peaches symbolize that "juicy creativity" best of all. What a great way to launch 2012. Thanks for all the tangible tips on inviting our own creativity. Kathy Dear Linda Joy,
I am so ready for this to be “The Year of the Memoir”! I love the idea here of “inviting creativity.” And those luscious-looking peaches symbolize that “juicy creativity” best of all. What a great way to launch 2012. Thanks for all the tangible tips on inviting our own creativity.
Kathy

]]> Comment on The Year of the Memoir–and Juicy Creativity by Kate Farrell http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2012/01/the-year-of-the-memoir-and-juicy-creativity/#comment-1240 Kate Farrell Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:15:43 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=16534#comment-1240 I so agree that much of our creative time is NOT spent pounding on a keyboard or scribbling on blank pages, but in deep silence. That back burner of the mind is active at unspoken levels, firing away with hot flame, maybe too hot or unformed to express. It is the antithesis of our "just do it" culture to stare into space or at a tree or pond for hours on end. Yet I love that creative process and not only for writing. Any good idea takes a gestation period. It's a thrill when that idea takes on a recognizable form. Ah! Then I see it and can begin to act in the "real" world. I so agree that much of our creative time is NOT spent pounding on a keyboard or scribbling on blank pages, but in deep silence. That back burner of the mind is active at unspoken levels, firing away with hot flame, maybe too hot or unformed to express. It is the antithesis of our “just do it” culture to stare into space or at a tree or pond for hours on end. Yet I love that creative process and not only for writing. Any good idea takes a gestation period. It’s a thrill when that idea takes on a recognizable form. Ah! Then I see it and can begin to act in the “real” world.

]]> Comment on The Year of the Memoir–and Juicy Creativity by Susan Reynolds http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2012/01/the-year-of-the-memoir-and-juicy-creativity/#comment-1239 Susan Reynolds Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:33:05 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=16534#comment-1239 Thank you for the lovely thoughts. Although I adore the breakthroughs, I often find the preceding hours, days, weeks disconcerting. If I let that in-between stage go on too long, the mere thought of writing feels painful. Thankfully, rediscovering the passion and the fiery creativity that comes with it is always spectacular enough to renew my faith in the process. I do find that using my visual senses, whether it's taking photographs or selecting gemstones and creating beaded jewelry or redecorating, will often jumpstart my writing energy. Getting out of my "head" quiets the nagging voices and awakens my subconscious. Feeling rooted to the earth through gardening or getting into my body through yoga are also fabulous ways to stimulate creativity, at least for me. Thank you for the lovely thoughts. Although I adore the breakthroughs, I often find the preceding hours, days, weeks disconcerting. If I let that in-between stage go on too long, the mere thought of writing feels painful. Thankfully, rediscovering the passion and the fiery creativity that comes with it is always spectacular enough to renew my faith in the process. I do find that using my visual senses, whether it’s taking photographs or selecting gemstones and creating beaded jewelry or redecorating, will often jumpstart my writing energy. Getting out of my “head” quiets the nagging voices and awakens my subconscious. Feeling rooted to the earth through gardening or getting into my body through yoga are also fabulous ways to stimulate creativity, at least for me.

]]> Comment on The Year of the Memoir–and Juicy Creativity by Sharon Lippincott http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2012/01/the-year-of-the-memoir-and-juicy-creativity/#comment-1238 Sharon Lippincott Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:05:20 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=16534#comment-1238 Those peaches activate drool. My mouth is watering and I long to dash upstairs and fill a bowl with juice-oozing peach slices, so sweet no sugar is needed, then slowly savor the contrast of quick tang and silken softness of cream. Alas -- peach season lies nearly eight months ahead! The memory of peaches bursts my bubble of seasonal satiation and returns my tastes to earth. Fresh, juicy peaches are sunshine for my soul. Those peaches activate drool. My mouth is watering and I long to dash upstairs and fill a bowl with juice-oozing peach slices, so sweet no sugar is needed, then slowly savor the contrast of quick tang and silken softness of cream. Alas — peach season lies nearly eight months ahead! The memory of peaches bursts my bubble of seasonal satiation and returns my tastes to earth. Fresh, juicy peaches are sunshine for my soul.

]]> Comment on Your Memoir is a Gift to the World by Dawn Novoty http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2011/12/your-memoir-is-a-gift-to-the-world/#comment-1235 Dawn Novoty Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:03:30 +0000 http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/?p=16512#comment-1235 Thank you Linda Joy for putting these words, the words that mist around in my head, into print. With my soon to be published book, Ragdoll Redeemed: Growing up in the Shadow of Marilyn Monroe, I not only wonder about marketing but if I should even think about marketing. After all, "who do I think I am"? To hear you say that our stories are a gift to the world is such a novel way of thinking compared to our culture teaching of modesty. Thank you for saying these words in a hundred different ways. Please keep saying them, we need to hear them. Warm regards, Dawn Thank you Linda Joy for putting these words, the words that mist around in my head, into print.

With my soon to be published book, Ragdoll Redeemed: Growing up in the Shadow of Marilyn Monroe, I not only wonder about marketing but if I should even think about marketing. After all, “who do I think I am”?

To hear you say that our stories are a gift to the world is such a novel way of thinking compared to our culture teaching of modesty. Thank you for saying these words in a hundred different ways. Please keep saying them, we need to hear them.

Warm regards, Dawn

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