This craft essay, published on the Brevity Blog, tracks some of my reading and learning about writing memoir and, in particular, references Dinty Moore’s concept of the magnetic river that needs to run through a story.
“I have at last found a book—actually two books—that are close to what I envisage for the memoir I’m working on. Finding these models feels like a validation and fuels my not-so-secret hope that my manuscript might be publishable . . . ” Read more on the Brevity Blog.
Fragments of an ordinary life 