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"If you love it, you can learn it": Dave Bidini on writing
“It’s part of the artist’s job: to see and sense things that other people are just too busy to notice.” Author, columnist and songwriter/musician Dave Bidini‘s memoir On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock (read an excerpt here) was recently chosen as one of five finalists for CBC’s Canada Reads: True Stories [...]
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Writing "Home First: A Memoir in Voices"
Guest Post by Susan Siddeley I love writing: fashioning sentences, crafting a tale, getting feedback. A nightmare for me is to be stranded in a queue with no pen or paper, where nothing is moving, yet life suddenly makes sense. Backing sixpenny notebooks with brown paper and scribbling about blackbirds, bluebells, and earwigs when I [...]
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"The Boy in the Moon": Love Letter to a Son, Voice for the Disabled
Guest Post by Mary E. McIntyre Twenty-one years ago, my brother and his wife had twin sons with cerebral palsy. The son who was more severely affected died at 17 years, of complications from his disability. The remaining twin is wheelchair bound, unable to look after his physical needs. Though he can talk slowly and [...]
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Claire Dederer: Taking her memoir voice out for a spin
Claire Dederer’s memoir, Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, published in January by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is structured around her developing relationship with yoga and the insights she has gleaned from her practice. Her wry and sincere writing style elevates her book above the typical “yoga saved my life” story. Claire didn’t need [...]
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New Writers' Organization Launches in York Region
Whether you’re a writer or aspiring writer, an editor, a publisher, or an avid reader—or several of the above—WCYR, a new writers’ organization in York Region, has something to offer you. The Writers’ Community of York Region (WCYR) launches Sunday, October 2, in Aurora, with a workshop, luncheon and guest speaker. And while registration for this [...]
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Welcome to my website
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.
This site, like my former Days Road Writers blog, was conceived as an online resource to help my students and other developing writers. Enjoy conversations with published memoirists and others in Interviews, and browse Writerly Ways for personal essays about writers’ journeys, tips and links. I hope you’ll discover something here that will inspire you.
Memento vivere — “Remember to live” — and you’ll never run out of stories to share.
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I’m pleased to announce my next retreat: Namaste Gardens Writing & Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica, January 2012. For details write me at lattamemoirs@gmail.com. Join me for this writing adventure!
