How to get perspective on your first draft
You’ve finished your first draft and you’re wondering, Is it any good? To evaluate your work and figure out what you want to change, you...
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Ellie Barton
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Should memoir have its own section in bookstores?
4/14/2022 Memoir is an exploding category. More and more, people want to read real-life stories that bear witness to the poignancy, pain,...
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Ellie Barton
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What makes the first-person voice engaging?
4/23/2020 The first person “I” is a natural point of view for memoir and personal essays. But writers take a risk in using “I” – the risk...
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Ellie Barton
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Mastering the mechanics of dialogue
1/23/2020 It’s harder than it looks to write dialogue that sounds natural. Writers can't just transcribe speech, with all its ums and...
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