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Review: WRITING HARD STORIES by Melanie Brooks
Author: Guest Reviewer | Categories: Book Reviews, Critical Essays, Nonfiction, Writing Advice No comments
Sharply written, these intimate and insightful exchanges dispel the myth that perhaps we all, writers or not, have come to believe about our own narratives, our own lives: “The worst story that we can tell ourselves is that we are alone.”
Episodia 1.16: How to Structure Your Memoir
Sometimes memoirists can feel as if we have very few choices about our stories. Bound by truth and memory, we can often conclude there’s not much room for our creative selves to have a say. But here’s a secret—we don’t have to pin down a narrative in the order