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You may be thinking about writing for yourself, or for family and friends, or because you dream of publishing your memoirs. All life writing grows from the same seeds: your unique memories. Begin today, and see what flowers.

Like my former Days Road Writers blog, this website was conceived as an online resource to help my students and other developing writers. Tabs above will lead you to conversations with memoirists and others (Interviews), personal essays about writers’ journeys (Writerly Ways), tips and links. Scroll my Blog, or click specific Categories (see sidebar), to find more thoughts on writing, interviews, guest posts, news of my students’ writing endeavours, and advice for writers. And have a peek at My Book Nook for reading recommendations with links to reviews. I hope you’ll discover ideas here that will spur your reading and writing.

Memento vivere — “Remember to live” — and you’ll never run out of stories to share.

NEWS …

Adair Lara will be guest author for the spring session of my online course Memories into Story, offered by University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies in partnership with the New York Times Knowledge Network. Adair is an award-winning San Francisco columnist and author of the memoir Hold Me Close, Let Me G0, as well as the popular writing book Naked, Drunk, and Writing. Course begins April 9, 2012.

The Writer magazine named my website one of “The Writer List: 16 of Our Favorite Writing Blogs and Websites”! See the article in its March 2012 issue. Celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, The Writer is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.

Check out my courses and workshops for 2012.

View photos of my January 2012 writers’ retreat in Costa Rica, and meet my two fabulous guest speakers by clicking William Deverell and Sandra Shaw Homer.