7 Jun 2023

What Does it Mean to Be a Member of a Local Writers’ Association Like WAG?

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Have you ever noticed something about interest groups? Like book groups or cooking groups or writing groups? Actually, any group run by volunteers manifests certain specific characteristics, regardless of the common theme drawing people together in the first place. And one of the most glaringly apparent commonalities lies in the … Read More
29 Mar 2023

How Bibliographies Benefit All Writers

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I’ll admit it, I spend a lot of time compiling bibliographies. For me, there’s something inherently satisfying about seeing a list of references all lined up, like bunches of beautiful flowers waiting to be picked. Research, for both fiction and nonfiction, requires bibliographies. To recreate past worlds, as in historical … Read More

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1 Mar 2023

Do You Dare? Writing about Still-Living People in Your Memoir

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In the case of your memoir, only you can know for sure what’s apt and what’s not. Memoirist Mary Karr, celebrated for her gritty memoir, The Liars’ Club, quoted Jerry Stahl’s comment from his memoir, Permanent Midnight: “If you had to live it, you get to write it.” Yes, you … Read More

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