Comments on: On writing memoir http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Shirley http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/comment-page-1/#comment-19243 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:00:16 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/#comment-19243 I found this post because you landed on Jane Friedman's best posts of the week. Congratulations! Your connection to Ira Glass and This American Life is excellent. Glass is a great teacher as well as a wonderful storyteller. I also agree with anonymous, above, about reading and learning from the greats. That's why I started my blog http://www.100memoirs.wordpress.com–to read, review, and learn in community as I write my own memoir.I'd love to connect with other lovers of this genre in the comment section there, also.

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READ people ! and work hard. that's all.

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]]> By: Brooke http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/comment-page-1/#comment-14690 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:15:39 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/#comment-14690 This American Life consistently reminds me that regardless of the genre, a (personal) story must have conflict; a beginning, middle, end; and always a resolution of some kind. Thanks for the great reminder for all of us closeted memoirists!

]]> By: Jennifer Heigl http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/comment-page-1/#comment-14689 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:47:55 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/#comment-14689 Great post. My fave memoir is hands down JR Moehringer's 'The Tender Bar', where you actually see the main character evolve and grow through the book. It's very similar to the way I write, so your post certainly gives me hope for more publication! :)

]]> By: momof http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/comment-page-1/#comment-14680 Thu, 28 May 2009 14:29:08 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/#comment-14680 I saw your posting about submissions and wanted to ask you to help spread the word about a writers competition. First Person Arts is looking for non-fiction and journalism-minded writers to submit to our nationwide competition First Person America: In These Hard Times. We’re a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization dedicated to memoir and documentary art in all forms, and this year our goal is to attract essays, photos and films from all 50 states documenting how individuals and communities are coping with economic challenges. You can find out more about the competition, prizes and judges at http://firstpersonamerica.org

]]> By: Wanda B. Ontheshelves http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/comment-page-1/#comment-14670 Thu, 14 May 2009 18:23:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/#comment-14670 Funny and Sad I Can Do

Thanks for the link to “This American Life” submission requirements.

They want:

“- Work that surprises.

– Work that’s funny. Especially work that’s both funny and sad.

– Writing that works like journalism–even if it’s fiction. That is, it describes and documents real things that happen to people.”

storypitch@thislife.org

Don’t know what happened to the rest of the DGLM blog though! (probably my computer)(oh well)

]]> By: Mary Witzl http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/comment-page-1/#comment-14669 Wed, 13 May 2009 17:26:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/#comment-14669 It’s good to know that there IS hope in getting a memoir published as long as a lesson is learned. I spend well over half my life learning lessons. Now all I need to do is get them onto the page in diamond form…

]]> By: talshannon http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/comment-page-1/#comment-14665 Thu, 07 May 2009 01:29:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/#comment-14665 “In many of these stories, the characters are all the same at the end of the story as they were at the beginning. No one learns anything. No one changes.”

Reading a memoir like that is like watching a rock to see if it will move. It might over a few thousand years — but who cares?

]]> By: Carolyn http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/comment-page-1/#comment-14664 Wed, 06 May 2009 14:52:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/05/on-writing-memoir/#comment-14664 Ira Glass gave a talk at the GEL conference in which he spoke at length about story and This American Life. It was very relevant to fiction. The video is on line at http://gelconference.com/videos/2007/ira_glass/

A highly recommended watch.

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