by Linda Joy Myers | Mar 25, 2014 | Featured, Memories and Memoirs, Writing As Healing
You’ve started on your memoir, and even though you’ve made an outline, you find your family and childhood taking over your story. You began to see your family through new lenses, and then your writing veered off way off course—or so you thought....
by Linda Joy Myers | Nov 28, 2013 | Blog, Memories and Memoirs, Spirituality and Memoir, Writing As Healing
On the subject of thanks-giving, I remember a poem by e. e. cummings this way: Thank you god for this amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees… In my twenties, I discovered e. e. cummings, his flashes of wit and image and fragmented verses that...
by Linda Joy Myers | Nov 11, 2013 | Blog, Interviews, Memories and Memoirs, National Association of Memoir Writers, Writing As Healing
I spoke with Victoria Costello, author of A Lethal Inheritance at the National Association of Memoir Writers member teleseminar. about the legacy of mental illness. Those of us who come from families with hidden or diagnosed mental illness feel “Other,”...
by Linda Joy Myers | Nov 6, 2013 | Excerpts by Linda, Memories and Memoirs, Writing As Healing
Forgiveness means letting go of the past. –Gerald Jampolsky For as long as I can remember, I’ve been interested in healing. As...
by Linda Joy Myers | Aug 15, 2013 | Blog, Excerpts by Linda, Memories and Memoirs, Writing As Healing
To write a memoir is to embark on a long journey of the imagination and of memory. My path of gathering memories, images, and stories was first through autobiographical art–painting, collage, etching, and mixed media. But I knew that words were necessary as...
by Linda Joy Myers | Mar 26, 2012 | Blog, Memories and Memoirs, National Association of Memoir Writers, Writing As Healing
By the time you read these words, the “I” that wrote them will have forgotten what it was, though the it lingers on, haunting the paper, unheard until you happen across it and your energy field activates it. –Margaret Atwood We write into the unknown, we...