Everyone has a unique story to tell because we all experience life differently. Memoirs are an ideal way to learn how other people see the world and have navigated through life’s ups and downs. We share a common humanity, and through our stories, we can show others how we celebrated our triumphs, survived challenges and […]
Modesty and humbleness are denying families the ability to really know family folklore and to have a deeper understanding on often the most influential person in our lives.
Arthritic hands, failing eyesight and impaired hearing were no obstacle for telling a life story for Bob and Robin.
The dawn of a new decade is the perfect time to reflect … it’s also the perfect time to start writing a memoir … As we head towards the dawn of a new decade, it is timely to reflect on the previous one—the special moments, ups and downs, challenges, victories and learnings. I don’t know […]
As Christmas approaches are you struggling to find the perfect gift for your partner, parents or grandparents? Do your father and grandfather have enough socks and undies to last a lifetime and is your Mum’s bookcase and that of your Grannie bursting at the seams with recipe books they never read? Have you thought of […]
This afternoon as the insistent blustery wind buffeted the magenta bougainvillea on our balcony overlooking Balmoral Beach in Sydney, I listened to an interview with Oxford University’s Jeremy Hughes and Virginia Woolf’s biographer, Hermione Lee. Jeremy asked Hermione whether writers can employ similar techniques to photographers to produce different images of the same subject. Hermione’s […]
I often mentor people who are writing their memoir and one of the questions they frequently ask me is: ‘How can I make my story more interesting?’ One way you can make your writing more compelling is to create vivid scenes full of sensory details. These scenes fuel a reader’s imagination and draw them into […]
Voice is integral to an individual’s identity, whether we write about someone else or ourselves. A person’s voice reveals a great deal and we make all sorts of assumptions about them because of this. In her chapter on voice in the book The Art of Memoir Mary Karr says, ‘a voice conjures the human who utters it.’ […]
I’m currently reading Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro, the multi-Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Robert Moses, who changed the urban landscape of New York with his massive bridges and freeways, and Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Jack Kennedy as US President after JFK was assassinated. In his book, Caro says that a sense of […]
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