8. A Conversation with Writing and Publishing Expert Jane Friedman
Jane Friedman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the most common craft issues she sees in memoir manuscripts, what writers often misunderstand about the industry, The Big Five, how to wr...
26 Apr 202237min
7. Writing Your Story for Yourself featuring Melissa Gould
Melissa Gould joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how writing was a way back to herself after she became a widow unexpectedly and at a young age, making the jump from screenwriting to non...
19 Apr 202230min
6. Not Too Soon, Not Too Much: Stories That Insist on Being Told featuring Meg Weber
Meg Weber joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about knowing when the right time is to tell your story, approaching loved ones about scenes in your memoir featuring graphic sex and kink, why com...
12 Apr 202235min
5. Doing Whatever it Takes to Get Yourself to Write featuring Andrea Ross
Andrea Ross joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about battling memoir imposter syndrome, choosing scene over exposition, doing whatever it takes to get yourself to write, and how she used the w...
5 Apr 202232min
4. Finding the Thread featuring Ellen Blum Barish
Ellen Blum Barish joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about becoming a memoirist after a career as a journalist and how that deepened her love of writing, the power of working on smaller pieces...
29 Mar 202232min
3. Putting it All on the Page: The Good, the Bad, and the Heartwrenching featuring Christie Tate
Christie Tate joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the ethics of writing about groups therapy and ex-boyfriends, navigating writing anxiety, becoming a full-time writer, and why she never ...
22 Mar 202233min
2. The Transformation of Trauma featuring Jeannine Ouellette
Jeannine Ouellette joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the power of literary constraints, why the how can be just as important as the what, writing about childhood sexual abuse, believing...
15 Mar 202243min
1. Who Am ”I”?--Character vs. Narrator featuring Debra Gwartney
Debra Gwartney joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the difference between character and narrator in memoir, navigating writing about loved ones, why memoirists need to hold their own feet...
15 Mar 202235min
