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The heart of my Memoir
I signed onto a free online class about Memoir writing today. It was difficult to concentrate solely on the class and not look around the room or let my mind drift off to other things. Something I picked up on was finding the heart of my Memoir. The Lecturer said her Memoir started out as…
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My 2nd meeting with my Book Coach
In other news, I’m working on editing and refining my Memoir while I’m here in Hospital. I finally have time to sit under a tree (the birdsong in the hospital Courtyard is absolutely amazing) and write…or in this case, RE-WRITE my memoir chapters. Today I had my 2nd ‘over the phone’ meeting with my Book…
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Writer’s homework
My book Coach Annie sent me ‘homework’ to do regarding my Memoir and I wanted to share my answers with you…because…why not? (just quietly, I am an attention whore and love it). Here you go: Writing exercises: What is your memoir’s working title? Why did you choose it? What other titles have you considered? Why…
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Writer in the making
In other news, I’m doing as much research as I can about what makes a great Memoir. Turns out, it needs to be well written, be engaging, have a “strong voice”, be descriptive and it needs to feel like an intriguing fiction while remaining true as memoirs are non fiction. Easy, huh? Lol. So I’ve…
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My first “Book Coach” meeting…and 2nd guesses
I wonder if God places people in our paths or if He lets us wander and whoever we meet, He’ll use that situation to help us grow? In my case, I found a great “Book Coach” who specialises in Memoir which is great because that’s what I’m writing (woohoo). Annie lives in Colorado and has…
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Square 1. Again.
I’ve re-drafted my Memoir and feel really confident that it’s a beast right now. Yass! I’m anxious to have an Editor read it, but it was ready…so this evening I’ve sent my Memoir to my new book Coach/Editor to look over. Squeeeeeee! I’m hoping Annie likes it and hope the feedback won’t hurt. Fingers crossed…
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Unfavourite
As I was writing my Memoir, I was gaslighting myself! Was your childhood really that bad, JD – or did you dramatise it? I actually took to YouTube of all places, to find out how other people have been affected by knowing their parents favoured their sibling over them. One girl commented “if my Mother…
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It will probably be a year until I see my 1st book
I emailed my “production team” 4 days ago asking for an update on how my Memoir was going. I knew from previous emails that it would be a few months until my book passed the “editing phase” but today an Editor responded to my inquiry saying the editing process “could take 9-12 months” 😳 Oh…
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