An autobiography is a series of stories that spans the author's life. Each story is a slice of life, which is a scene or memory that shows something about who you are or what you have experienced....
When he was released in 1945, he went to what was then the Republic of Indonesia and became an Indonesian citizen. In 1956, he went to Bali and spent the rest of his life there. His art was heavily influenced by three Pauls: Signac, Gauguin and Cézanne. I loved these colorful ...
, but at querying time, what’s going to convince Millicent that her boss, the agent of your dreams, absolutely needs to take a gander at your book proposal is not merely how beautifully you describe the story arc of your memoir, but your platform for writing it. I sense many of you ...
From hushed whispers around campfires to sprawling epics on printed pages, stories shape our world. Yet, even the most prolific storytellers occasionally find themselves at a crossroads, yearning for a spark to reignite their narrative flame. Enter the realm of Creative Writing Prompts: these short,...
“Of course he does.” They are laughing now, comrades in arms, relieved that this experience is not theirs alone. The stories continue. My heart has dropped. They are talking about the young person I wrote about inmy last blog post, the same young person who I’d hoped I was beginnin...
Shannon currently serves as SCBWI social co-director for Louisville, a judge for Rate Your Story, and she created the blog series, Pivotal Moments: inHERview, highlighting transitional life stories of female picture book authors. Cool facts: Currently writing her memoir, Shannon is a medical ...
Except it’s not just a monster story, oh no, we also get the life stories of the six main characters in excoriating detail because each and every one of them comes draped in some sort of tragedy. Neglect, abuse, hints of pedophilia, you name it Derry, Maine has it in spades. May...
They feel compelled to share their trauma, their pain, the fact that someone in their life, usually a loved one, usually when they were at their smallest and most vulnerable, took advantage of them. Why do my stories bring not only these past memories to the surface for abuse survivors, ...
I occasionally write stories about what might have happened had situations from my real life been slightly different, and “Pre-Party” essentially follows that model. I attended a pre-party in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco for the Folsom Eve Ball a couple of years back and it...
To paraphrase one of my favorite characters from Game of Thrones. This is what I do. I drink and I write stories. (Not at the same time!) Many, many readers commented that they read the book in a day, within hours, stayed up half the night to finish. This is incredibly flattering....