Writership is pleased to present the first in our series of creative writing prompt books. 101 Creative Writing Prompts for Memoir Writers is chock full of gorgeous pictures and writing prompts for you to jump-start that memoir you've been wanting to write. Complete with an introduction to freewriting, this book provides lots of fodder for your creative explorations. Approach the prompts in order or flip to a random page for new inspiration. Revisit the prompts for a deeper dive into the topic at hand. When combined with a daily practice, these prompts will help illuminate the themes and messages you want to write about in your memoir. Explore your life's defining experiences, adventure, adversity, and accomplishments through these writing exercises.

Beat writer's block with 101 writing prompts and finish crafting your life's story with this fun collection of prompts. This exciting resource of creative writing exercises is designed to help you to crush writer's block. This book is designed to unlock a treasure trove of awesome ideas to start your own life story. This collection is useful for those who have a burning desire to tell their life stories, to share their experiences with others, to count, to be counted, to share their family histories, to leave an inspiring legacy behind. Have fun with these prompts!

101 Creative Writing Exercises takes you on an adventure through the world of creative writing. Explore different forms and genres by experimenting with fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Discover effective writing concepts, tools, and techniques. Create projects you can publish. Ideal for new and experienced writers alike, this book will enlighten and inspire you with exciting new ideas. Freewriting Journaling and Memoir Fiction and Storytelling Form Poetry and Free Verse Article and Blog Writing By Melissa Donovan, Founder and Editor of Writing Forward, a critically acclaimed blog packed with creative writing tips and ideas

Baring the Truth in Your Memoir When you write a memoir or personal essay, you dare to reveal the truths of your experience: about yourself, and about others in your life. How do you expose long-guarded secrets and discuss bad behavior? How do you gracefully portray your family members, friends, spouses, exes, and children without damaging your relationships? How do you balance your respect for others with your desire to tell the truth? In The Truth of Memoir, best-selling memoirist Kerry Cohen provides insight and guidelines for depicting the characters who appear in your work with honesty and compassion. You'll learn how to choose which details to include and which secrets to tell, how to render the people in your life artfully and fully on the page, and what reactions you can expect from those you include in your work--as well as from readers and the media. Featuring over twenty candid essays from memoirists sharing their experiences and advice, as well as exercises for writing about others in your memoirs and essays, The Truth of Memoir will give you the courage and confidence to write your story--and all of its requisite characters--with truth and grace. "Kerry Cohen's The Truth of Memoir is a smart, soulful, psychologically astute guide to first-person writing. She reveals everything you want to know--but were afraid to ask--about telling your life story." --Susan Shapiro, author of eight books including Only As Good as Your Word, and co-author of The Bosnia List

In her first book to focus solely on writing since her classic work "Writing Down the Bones," Goldberg reaffirms her status as one of the foremost teachers by redefining the practice of writing memoir.

"It's possible simply to go through life noticing things and writing them down and that this is OK, it's worth doing... the seemingly insignificant things that most of us spend our days noticing are really significant, have meaning, and tell us something." - Joan DidionThis is not just another list-of-writing-prompts-book because Carolyn V. Hamilton has included personal stories to inspire you to be ruthlessly hones with yourself. And she has done so honestly, openly, and with no holds barred. Just as she encourages you to do.WARNING: Sharing your personal thoughts with yourself in a written format can lead to unbridled self-exploration and self-knowledge.Carolyn V. Hamilton's goal has been to provide you with lots of often odd and unusual things to think about when you sit down to write your memoir or to write in your daily journal. Your emotional reactions to Carolyn's personal stories may give you some new insight into yourself, and how you prefer to tell your stories. Her memoir students and clients often tell her that it's not easy, or not always preferable, to be blunt and raw.In this book you'll find intriguing story prompt titles like, "What Mom Said", "Eavesdropping", "The Tsunami Wedding", "That Foul Smell", "Close Encounters of the Police Kind", and "Stung, Bitten, Ravaged."If you are writing a memoir, these prompts can give you some ideas for something to write when you are "stuck." And that piece may well find its way into the big picture of your story.From the author of The 5 Important Parts of a Successful Memoir & Why You Need Them and Power Editing For Memoir Writers, this comprehensive book will spark your inspiration and immediately unleash your creativity.It may also help you to deep-dive into yourself and discover daring and daunting epiphanies.

Now would-be writers can learn how to create a meaningful work that invites a touching glimpse into yesteryear. This guide will help them bring the past alive and share it with others in a captivating way, as the author offers advice and skills from his popular workshops. Highlighted with more than 60 photos.