memoir – Anne Z

Day 393 of 1000: The Narrative Laziness of Addiction Memoirs

Elizabeth Gilbert’s All the Way to the River treads familiar, and tedious, ground.

How I came to trading through grief after divorce, and why looking at it as a good story helps me cope.

I’m reading The Bell and The Argonauts at the same time. Two very different books, which share a common theme.

Ideas from Louise DeSalvo on how long it takes to write a book, and the inevitable imperfection of what results.

I’ve been writing my memoir for over ten years and I’m now turning it into nonfiction. How to accept when writing a book goes very slowly.

Oliver Burkeman suggests you ask yourself, when facing a daunting task, what if this were easy? I want my memoir rewrite to be fun too.

Philosopher Judith Butler says we are at least somewhat opaque to ourselves. Implications for memoir writing.

In storytelling, you create meaning in roundabout and inefficient ways. This is a new mode for me.

Thinking about how to improve my memoir essays. Writing a memoir with a list, and only a list.

Thinking about how to show both my conscious and unconscious desires in my memoir-in-progress Things Men Gave Me.