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Do you lack inspiration for writing?
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Do you lack inspiration for writing?

I’ve spent the last few weeks engaged in the most uninspiring of tasks – deep cleaning. It’s an annual requirement before making our Dorchester home available for holiday lets while…
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Posted by By Gail Aldwin 2026-03-02Posted inWriting PromptsTags: fiction, inspiration, memoir, writing promptsNo Comments
The first anniversary is paper!
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The first anniversary is paper!

Miriam presents her recently published memoir, 'Stumbling stones: the Holocaust, my family and me', on its first anniversary.
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Posted by By Miriam Landor 2026-02-25Posted inAuthorsTags: family history, Holocaust, memoir, Miriam Landor1 Comment
The Origin Story: on belonging and other universal themes
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The Origin Story: on belonging and other universal themes

I've struggled with the term origin story for a while — both with its definition and its purpose in the context of writing craft. I'm not referring to a character's…
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Posted by By Kimberly Hirsh Kabonga 2025-12-08Posted inWriting LifeTags: memoir, origin story, writing prompts4 Comments
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The Universal Turing Machine

John introduces the Universal Turing Machine (UTM), a mass human memoir writing project devised by British author Richard Beard.
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Posted by By John Dudley Nixon 2025-10-27Posted inWriting PromptsTags: memoir, Richard Beard, Universal Turing Machine, writing prompts, writing tools6 Comments
Coming of What Age?
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Coming of What Age?

Genre is a complicated topic for many writers. If you’re not writing straight romance, science fiction, or crime/mystery, how do you “define” what your book is about? What if you’ve…
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Posted by By Kimberly Hirsh Kabonga 2025-05-26Posted inWriting LifeTags: coming of age, Genre, memoir, mid-life7 Comments
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From Writer to Reader in 25 Years

Former member of Pens Around the World, Anglo-Canadian author Sue Borgersen has written a blog post for us about her development as a writer over the last 25 years.
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Posted by By Guest Blogger 2025-04-07Posted inGuest Blog Posts, Writing LifeTags: memoir, motivation, writing, writing groups4 Comments
Full Self-Publishing Services – Any Good?
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Full Self-Publishing Services – Any Good?

‘The days of our years are threescore years and ten,’ according to Psalm 90, and I have passed this biblical age limit. I spent the last ten of those years…
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Posted by By Miriam Landor 2025-02-24Posted inAuthors, Writing LifeTags: memoir, self-publishingNo Comments
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Coming Home to a Far Off Place

Guest blogger Marsali Taylor, author of the Shetland Mysteries series, tells us how she came home to far away Shetland.
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Posted by By Guest Blogger 2024-12-02Posted inGuest Blog Posts, Writing LifeTags: Marsali Taylor, memoir, shetland4 Comments
Down Memory Lane
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Down Memory Lane

What keeps you awake at night? Whatever happened to…? What keeps you awake at night? Do you lie there, staring out the window at the moon, worrying about the state…
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Posted by By Debbie Hubbard 2024-11-12Posted inWriting PromptsTags: inspiration, memoir, writing prompts3 Comments
Lisa's diary and the letters home her mother collected
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The Accidental Author

This post was written by our guest blogger Lisa Rose Wright. She is the author of the Writing Home trilogy of travelogue memoirs, which follow her adventures in Galicia, and…
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Posted by By Guest Blogger 2024-10-07Posted inGuest Blog Posts, Writing LifeTags: inspiration, LisaRoseWright, memoir, motivation, self-publishing8 Comments

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