I started writing as a freshman at SUNY Buffalo quite a while ago. The coolest kids I knew were in English, and the coolest of them all seemed to be writers. That’s where I wanted to be. But once I went to work I wrote only institutional copy for many years. Instructional manuals, sales letters, […]
Writing For Your Life: Old Friend From Far Away by Natalie Goldberg
In the last few years memoirs have flooded our bookstores, often achieving the kind of sales traditionally reserved for best-selling novels. And the interest in writing memoir remains strong. The motivation may be to leave something for posterity, to write your own history without interference, or to try to get to the bottom of one’s […]