Worry digs a well for tomorrow’s thirst, but drinks from the water meant for today.
It exhausts the strength needed for the present by obsessing over a future it cannot control.
#Worry #BookishThoughts #AmQuerying #CurrentlyWatching #BookPhotography #MemoirWriting #AIArt #ShortReads
Stillness is not a failure of ambition.
Stop thrashing around like a drowning rat and watch the answer float up to the surface.
#Stillness #Ambition #Drowning #Answers #SoulSearching #Booknerdigan #WritingCraft #BookishProblems #MemoirWriting #PageTurner #AIArt #WritersCommunity #Yogasky
"We spend so much time trying to polish our stories until they’re perfect, but the magic is actually in the mess." :sparkles:
Watch the full deep-dive interview open.substack.com/pub/saimarie...
#MarieKuipers #WereAllMadHere #TheMindOfSaiMarie #AuthorLife #MemoirWriting
Step into two powerful stories.
Read extracts from our Memoir Award winners, Alinah Azadeh and Dayna Bateman.
Explore now: buff.ly/0Q9G2sU
#MemoirWriting #CreativeNonfiction #WritersCommunity #AmWriting #BridportPrize
Learn how to shape your life story with clarity and purpose — the ultimate guide to structuring an autobiography for meaningful impact. #AutobiographyGuide #WritingTips #StoryCraft #LifeStories #MemoirWriting #WriteYourStory
Read here: www.irwingould.com/ultimate-gui...
Delighted to share extracts from our Memoir Award winners Alinah Azadeh and Dayna Bateman on our website.
Explore now: buff.ly/NX1ARRa
#MemoirWriting #CreativeNonfiction #WritersCommunity #AmWriting #BridportPrize
Every memoir begins with a question:
Where do I start?
If you're thinking about writing your memoir, this workbook will help you begin.
Download Five Must-Do’s to Find Your Story and Begin Your Memoir:
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Memoir feels big? Start with the personal essay. Join a Personal Essay Studio Session and build the skills to write, publish, and grow into book-length work.
#MemoirWriting #PersonalEssay
Memory is layered. Writing is excavation.
Join Q.M. Zhang for “Like a Person Digging,” a MemoryWorks masterclass on transforming personal memory into powerful narrative.
🎟 Save your spot: genevawriters.org/event-6464392
#WritingCommunity #MemoirWriting #CreativeWriting #GenevaWriters #writing
Personal essay is to memoir what short story is to novel.
If you want stronger memoir, start by strengthening the building blocks: scene, reflection, structure, and meaning.
#MemoirWriting #EssayWriting #CreativeNonfiction
Explore the sessions:
Grateful to the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing for supporting my work with a Poet & Author Fellowship!
I loved attending my first writing residency last summer. MVICW will be my first writers’ conference—any tips for a newbie?
#writing #memoirwriting #writingconference
Your memoir is revised. Your essays are tightened. Now the real work begins.
Workshop your #CreativeNonfiction with peers who'll push your prose further than you can alone.
Summer I & II 2026 applications are open.
#CreativeNonfiction #MemoirWriting #WritingCommunity #MWG
NEW Compton Creek #11: Argiope aurantia, Archilochus colubris, and Impatiens capensis. Things I meditate on, not necessarily in Latin. #spiders #birds #flowers #wildlife #nature #memoir #memoirwriting #memoryofplace #comptoncreek #naturememoir
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This five-week course includes: writing in community, lessons on craft, and the opportunity to share and revise your narratives.
Thursdays, March 12h - April 9th
6:00 - 8:30pm PT. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcraft #writingclass #novelwriting #memoirwriting
Have you ever wanted to live off-grid in a log cabin? My guest author, Eleanor Deckert, and her husband were newlyweds in 1978 and headed west to do exactly that.
#memoir #memoirwriting #10DaysinDecember helentdoan.com
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NEW Chapter of Compton Creek Requiem is LIVE. #10: A Hole in the Ground. #memoir #memoirwriting #comptoncreek #comptoncreekrequiem #holeintheground #memories #childhoodmemories #childhood #memoryofplace #nature #naturewriting
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How do we define achievement when life looks different?
This reflection explores disability, faith, and independence in steady, realistic terms.
www.jimmymulzetstory.com/redefining-success-when-life-looks-different
#InclusiveLiving #CerebralPalsy #MemoirWriting #Resilience
Discover how writing a memoir can empower your voice, heal your past, and inspire others — a journey worth exploring. #MemoirWriting #Empowerment #WritingCommunity #Inspiration #ShareYourStory #LifeStories
Read here: www.jimmymulzetstory.com/experience-e...
Resilience Through the Eyes of Disability explores independence, employment, and identity beyond diagnosis.
Full context: www.jimmymulzetstory.com/resilience-through-the-eyes-of-disability
#DisabilityMemoir
#WritersCommunity
#ResilienceThroughTheEyesOfDisability
#DisabilityNarratives
#MemoirWriting
NEW MEMOIR POST: Compton Creek Requiem #8: A Helicopter, the First Homeschool Experiments, and a Box Full of Fun. The Great Blizzard of 1978. #memoir #MemoirWriting #naturewriting #nature #history #greatblizzard #greatblizzardof78
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Untethered Unbound : Part 3 on Substack now.
#Memoir #memoirwriting #creativenation #addiction #expat #thirdculturekid #tck #writersofbluesky #expatriate
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Meet Claire, the AI Valentine who pretends to be a literary editor, doling out vague memoir advice to a journalist. Curious how a chatbot can double as a digital editor? Dive into the quirky AI‑dating experiment. #LiteraryAI #MemoirWriting #ChatbotInteraction
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Your first line sets the story in motion. We’ll discuss openings and practice with prompts.
Friday, Feb. 13th, from 6:30 - 8:00 PM PST. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcraft #writingclass #novelwriting #memoirwriting
Act Fast! Grab the last ticket for Wednesday Memoir with Susan Hodara! This class sells out, take this chance to join in on the magic.
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🗓️ Wednesdays • Feb 11-March 25
🕰️ 3-5 pm ET
💻 Zoom
#MemoirWriting #WritingClass
The first line is the opening gun that gives a reader their first inkling of where you are going. We’ll discuss openings and practice with prompts.
Friday, Feb. 13th
6:30 - 8:00 PM PST. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcraft #novelwriting #memoirwriting
Before the memoir or novel, there’s the personal essay.
It’s where writers learn voice and how to move a reader.
I’m teaching a Personal Essay Studio at Writer Clubhouse.
👉
#PersonalEssay #MemoirWriting #Writers
Short exercises, readings, and a longer final piece will introduce you to fascinating aspects of memoir craft.
Thursdays, Feb. 5th - March 26th, from 6:00-8:00pm PT. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcommunity #writingcraft #memoir #memoirwriting #writingclass
What digging through your past to write your memoir looks like...😬
#Journaling #booksky #memoirwriting #artofmemoir #notebooks #journaltherapy #writingishealing #art #healing
Immerse yourself in memoir. Short exercises, readings, and a longer final piece will introduce you to fascinating aspects of the craft.
Thursdays, Feb. 5th - March 26th, from 6:00-8:00pm PT. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcommunity #writingcraft #memoirwriting
