The biggest struggle for me in writing my first book, the memoir Imogen in Waiting, came after the first draft, when the craft of redrafting began. To do that I felt I needed to expose my story of having …
Memoir – to write or not to write? A Guest Post by Cynthia Banham
A little while back I announced to my writers’ group, surprising us all, that I was done with memoir. Having published two, most recently Mother Shadow, I’d decided that a third –something I’ve been working on since 2020, a …
Writing about people you have unfinished business with: A Guest Post by Julia Lawrinson
‘That must have been cathartic.’ This is the sentence I hear most when I tell people I’ve written a memoir.
Some days, it is true. Putting shape to a life that has been messy, traumatic, bizarre, and entertaining by turns …