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		<title>Are you Writing a Memoir—or True Life Fiction?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Truth or Fiction—how do you want to write your life story? This is a pithy and often difficult question that many memoir writers ponder—and it keeps them from writing. Are you writing—or are you worrying about how to write your story? It’s time to think hard about your choices and get back to your book. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Writing and Creativity in The Year of the Memoir—2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now quite a few people in my networks have heard that I decided to call 2012 The Year of the Memoir. Why did she do that, you wonder. What will we call next year?? More importantly&#8211;what is Snoopy writing in HIS memoir? First of all, I trust in the powers of creativity. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Memoir in 2012&#8211;The Year of the Memoir  &#124;  Understanding and Conquering Your Inner—and Outer—Critic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you first decide to write, you’re excited—eager to explore the memories and stories that are part of you. Memories shape who you are and where you hailed from. In a memoir, you weave the legacy about your life and times. You know your story—but perhaps the whispers of the ever present inner critic voice [...]]]></description>
		<link>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/</link>
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		<title>The Year of the Memoir&#8211;and Juicy Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. –Rollo May   &#160; &#160; It’s the Year of the Memoir—welcome to 2012. At the National Association of Memoir Writers, we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Memoir is a Gift to the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Most writers seem to hate marketing, selling, or publicity. The idea of getting the word out about their work seems kind of—well, rude. Are you one of those writers? You’re in good company if you are, but you need to learn some new stuff about how to think about marketing—that is IF you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Writing: A Passion that Blows by the Inner Critic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  In the course of my work as a memoir coach, I have met so many people who have a passion to write. To live that passion, often we have to wrestle with a fierce internal adversary: the critic who says we have to use perfect grammar and eloquent language. It tells us that if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2011/12/memoir-writing-a-passion-that-blows-by-the-inner-critic/</link>
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		<title>Lynn Serafinn Talks about the 7 Graces of Marketing&#8211;How to Make it Fit Your Philosophy of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 1 of the Virtual Blog Tour of author Lynn Serafinn whose book The 7 Graces of Marketing: how to heal humanity and the planet by changing the way we sell launches on Amazon on Tuesday December 13, 2011. Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2011/11/lynn-serafinn-talks-about-the-7-graces-of-marketing-how-to-make-it-fit-your-philosophy-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Attitude of Gratitude&#8211;Thankfulness Promotes Health and Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Last week at the teleseminar hosted by the National Association of Memoir Writers, Jason Marsh, one of the directors of The Greater Good Science Foundation spoke with me about the power of art and social connections to help the healing process. Thanksgiving is one of our “official” gratitude holidays—while also being the “eating holiday.” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2011/11/attitude-of-gratitude-thankfulness-promotes-health-and-happiness/</link>
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		<title>Memoir Writing—The Art of Compassion, Healing, and Forgiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Those of you who have been writing memoir know that it’s not just as simple as sitting down and letting words pour forth out of your fingers. It is a journey—I’ve written about that before—and it’s a challenge emotionally. We run into all kinds of memories on that journey, and we need some help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://memoriesandmemoirs.com/2011/11/memoir-writing%e2%80%94the-art-of-compassion-healing-and-forgiveness/</link>
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		<title>National Lifewriting Month! &#124; Tips for Writing Fast&#8211;Get Your Memoir First Draft Done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at the tips I wrote for your memoir journey at Nina Amir&#8217;s special blog to celebrate National Lifewriting Month! This is the month that memoir writers join the fiction folks over at NaNoWriMo to write as much as 50,000 words in 30 days. 6.5 pages a day&#8211;can you do it? Can you [...]]]></description>
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