How to Avoid Mid-story Memoir Sag – You are in good company if you are battling mid-story sag. Nearly all memoir
writers hit a point where they sit up one day and say: What is this thing about?
Lisa Dale Norton
Lisa Dale Norton is an author, developmental book editor, and a dynamic public speaker. She is passionate about layered writing structures in narrative nonfiction that reflect the complexity of life experience, and about the transformative power of writing a memoir. She is a gifted teacher, clear communicator, and a pro at creating an environment were learning can happen.
Lisa wrote America’s go-to memoir writing guide, Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (Macmillan), and the literary nonfiction story Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills (Picador USA), which won comparisons to the writing of Annie Dillard. https://lisadalenorton.com/
Why a Story Question is Essential in Memoir Writing
Why a Story Question is Essential in Memoir, Lisa Dale Norton – In today’s marketplace, a memoir that attracts the attention of an agent and editor, pursues some kind of story question.
Three Tips to Stay Motivated to Finish Your Memoir
Writing Insights, Lisa Dale Norton – September is America’s traditional back-to-school month, and with it come renewed desires to finish that memoir you’ve been working on.
What Is Comprehensive Manuscript Editing?
Lisa Dale Norton – Many editing services break memoir editing into a menu of options from which you must choose and pay for individually. My expertise combines these services.
Why You Need to Understand Publisher Macmillan’s Stand Against Trump
No matter what form of writing you practice, whether you are a memoirist, novelist, poet, essayist or journalist—or you are just beginning your dream of writing and publishing—you need to know and care about publisher Macmillan’s recent stand against Trump. What...
Happy Endings: The Memoir Writing Lesson of 2017
The memoir lesson of 2017 leaps out at us from Annie Proulx’s acceptance speech last week at the National Book Awards ceremony.
Now, The Latest On Memoir Publishing
Memoir continues as a hot seller for the main body of book buyers in America: women. For the first six months of 2017, BookScan reported sales growth in the category Biography/Autobiography/Memoir—up 8% over sales figures for the same period in 2016. This is good news...
When Should You Show Your Memoir to Family or Friends?
Reprinted May 1, 2017, from Lisa Dale Norton's blog Never. At least not while you are working on it.That is what my gut tells me to say to you, but then I know better. I know you seek approval. I know you want your loved ones to see your hard work. You want them...
Finishing Your Memoir This Summer, Scene by Scene
Everyone is writing a book, but only a few will finish their books, and only a select number will finish their memoir this summer. How will they do it?1) By understanding a book is simply a series of scenes;2) By understanding that summer is a definable block of time...
Santa Fe Writing Retreat to Focus on Memoir
Gifted writer and writing teacher Lisa Dale Norton, will offer a two-day retreat on The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing July 22-24 at her home in Santa Fe.Attendees will gather at Lisa’s home and garden and in the cafes and coffee bars of Santa Fe for in-depth...
