The key to writing a really good memoir is to identify a really good theme that runs through some aspect of your life and focus on that.

Understanding the true purpose of memoir is key to knowing when the time is right for you to write one.

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Simplicity . No matter your genre, keep your writing as straightforward and to-the-point as possible. Write to communicate, not to impress.

Journaling promotes self-awareness, shifts your viewpoint, and broadens your perspective on yourself and others.

A personal essay is about a topical subject discussed from a personal perspective, yours or someone else’s.

Author Terri Lyon focuses on how she evaluates the effectiveness of her author platform to create an audience and generate sales.

What do get when you merge the mechanics of creative writing with factuality of literary nonfiction? Creative nonfiction, or CNF.

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So in my last blog post, I discussed how, often, writers neglect sensory descriptive language in their work. Keeping in mind that we have...