Leslie Jamison in Memoir Land Charles D'Ambrosio 'told me once …that 'sometimes the problem with an essay can become its subject.' Meaning (among other things) that sometimes the things that seem most difficult about a given project are also the reason it's meaningful at all'

'In many ways, I feel like I spent fifteen years developing my voice and my craft so that I could tell, the best way I could, the hardest story I would ever tell...' - Leslie Jamison takes The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire.

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Since I was just talking about being a slow writer, I think my first year in review post should be this essay I published this year that I like very much. :) Writing and Rushing. Thanks again Sari Botton and stella.

Three Sabbaths made the wonderfully curated Memoir Land . Thank you Sari Botton

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In light of the bigotry coming from this site's owner, this will be the last week I post the Memoir Monday roundup here. 😪 It's time.

Thank you to Memoir Land for featuring Jael Montellano in ANMLY :: Anomaly :: Anomalous Press for last week's Memoir Monday!

I haven’t been as active here as usual, but this piece on Oldster Magazine hits all the notes for me so I wanted my X friends (*not* ex-friends) to read it too. ANNE LAMOTT is a national treasure. She always sets me straight.

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In The Lit Lab, the latest in the Prompt-o-Matic series.
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Thanks to the generous Sari Botton for talking to us about Writing Co-lab! it’s been such a wonderful experience getting this puppy off the ground, and I couldn’t ask for better co-labbers :

Sari Botton has been “going hard on Oldster Magazine Memoir Land but it’s important to “take breaks.” Maggie Smith: 'get out of my brain & into my body—and the natural world—as much as possible. Walking, looking up at the sky...' #aging #women over50 #women #dreams #older #gray

Loved doing this interview with the inimitable Sari Botton for Memoir Land, in which we got really excited about Writing Co-lab, as we are wont to do

Today in The Lit Lab, an interview with the founders of Writing CoLab, an experimental, cooperative writing school founded by Amy Shearn, Brian Gresko, and sara lippmann.
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