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Nov 15
2 min

Is It Time to Write Your Memoir?

By mingling on social media with potential memoirists, I often hear it said that they need to get their stories out to the world; they’ve...

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Trish Lockard

Sep 8
4 min

Don't Get Mired Down in Your Memoir

Memoir writers can't make progress because they are learning to write, have career and personal commitments, and get no support for the work

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Trish Lockard

May 22
4 min

How to Choose a Memoir Theme

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.

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Writing About Trauma: What Memoir Is and Isn’t

Trish Lockard

May 2
4 min

Writing About Trauma: What Memoir Is and Isn’t

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

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Memoir and Law: Understanding Defamation and Invasion of Privacy

Trish Lockard

Apr 27
6 min

Memoir and Law: Understanding Defamation and Invasion of Privacy

Memoir authors risk defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuits. How can they protect themselves?

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Trish Lockard

Mar 14
3 min

Overwriting, the Death of Clarity

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

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Trish Lockard

Dec 18, 2019
5 min

Heal and Grow: The Power of Journaling

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

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Personal Essays are Still a Hot Commodity

Trish Lockard

Nov 16, 2019
3 min

Personal Essays are Still a Hot Commodity

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

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Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 2

Terri Lyon

Jul 28, 2019
3 min

Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 2

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

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With Creative Nonfiction, Reality Meets Great Storytelling

Trish Lockard

Jul 24, 2019
4 min

With Creative Nonfiction, Reality Meets Great Storytelling

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

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Trish Lockard

Mar 4, 2019
3 min

Publishing in 2019--What to Expect

The sales data in traditional publishing for 2018 pointed to some surprising trends. If you want to know what the industry is looking for...

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Trish Lockard

Feb 8, 2019
3 min

Writing Sensory Description, Part 2

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

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