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How to write a memoir: Captivating the reader

I often mentor people who are writing their memoir and one of the questions they frequently ask me is: ‘How can I make my memoir more interesting for my readers?’ 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 […]

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How to write a memoir: The importance of ‘voice’ in life writing

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 […]

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Balmoral’s never-ending story

Our local paper, Mosman Daily, published an article about memoir writing, memoir writing groups and my business, Share your life story. https://bit.ly/2nxPntU

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How to write a memoir: Creating a sense of place

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 […]

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The benefits of writing a memoir: North Shore Times article

North Shore Living Magazine has just published my article on the benefits of writing a memoir and belonging to a memoir writing group. https://bit.ly/322exQn

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The perfect Fathers’ Day gift—a memoir gift voucher

As Fathers’ Day approaches are you struggling to find the perfect gift for your dad or grandfather? Do they have enough socks and undies to last a lifetime and is their bathroom cabinet overflowing with aftershave you gave them as presents for the last few years? Have you thought of giving your father or grandfather […]

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Australia Day 2019: Recreating scenes on the prison deck of convict ships

As we approach Australia Day 2019, I’m putting the final touches on the major assignment for the online Family History Writing course I’m doing at the University of Tasmania. We have to write a short narrative focused on one of our ancestors, a place they lived or an event in their life. The narrative must […]

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The moments that mattered in 2018

The new year is the perfect time to reflect on everything that happened in our life during 2018. The special moments, ups and downs, challenges, victories and learnings. It is also a time to commit to implementing important changes in our life—changing jobs, retiring, starting a new course or business, taking up exercise, giving up […]

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The perfect Christmas gift—a memoir

As Christmas approaches are you struggling to find the perfect gift for your parents or grandparents? Do your Dad 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 giving […]

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