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52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for Writers (opens the original)
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joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about why writing prompts are so powerful, images that haunt us, avoiding revenge prose, revising to create a rounded character, writing our truth, getting better at dialogue, how to navigate AI, the joy of creating something from start to finish, writing about family and friends, writing about our bodies, building writing community, how reading time is writing time, enjoying exploration, essay as immediate gratification while writing memoir, making sto
Returning to and Forgiving our Authentic Selves (opens the original)
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joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about not getting to know her biological father who emigrated from Cuba during the Cold War from Cuba as an unaccompanied minor until the end of his life, how we learn to understand and accept one another despite our cultural differences, evolving as a writer and human as we write memoir, being able to comfort and repair the different versions of ourselves, coming of age and being safe, experimenting with alternating points of view to increase compassio
Going Back to Rescue the Past (opens the original)
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Deborah Derrickson Kossmann joins Let’s Talk Memoir episode 259 for a conversation about how complicated family dynamics culminated in her mother’s severe hoarding disorder, grieving what you didn’t get as a child, going back to rescue the past, sharing family secrets, recognizing shame in loved ones, telling a story in a fair way, how anger is a shortcut, waiting until someone has passed to write about them, how editing makes us better writers, recognizing when there is an emotional piece missi
When and How to Engage Our Wise Narrator (opens the original)
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Welcome to September’s Substack, coming to you right in the middle of this hefty, beautiful, poignant month. I hope these last few weeks have treated you well. I’ve seen a lot of new subscribers recently and I am so happy you are here. If you are brand new to Let’s Talk Memoir, this is a Substack and also a podcast. As of today Let’s Talk Memoir has 259 episodes available featuring interviews with memoirists and beloved writing teachers on your favorite podcast platform. You can learn more HERE.
Playing with Writing Constraints and Form (opens the original)
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joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about writing 70 micro memoirs of 70 words each to mark her 70th birthday, her love of compression and concision, working in themes, sitting with the memory of a scene and understanding its emotional truth, being clear on your quest as a memoirist, growing up in an overly close knit family, emotional and physical intrusion, forging a separate self, having no desire to write a memoir about her family, playing with constraints and form, feeling freedom to
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