Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Tag: On Memoir

  • The Truth About Single Moms

    Saturday I attended a writer’s conference. I had a long-standing commitment to participate on a panel with writers Cindy LaFerle and Lynne Cobb on women’s issues. The always fabulous Cindy LaFerle moderated the panel, so all I had to do was show up and say something smart. Not easy, but I’m a woman, I’ve been…

  • Writing Again

    Finally, almost two weeks after I sliced my writing fingers open, I am back to writing. Had a serious pen and paper session that lasted a few hours and blasted through a block that has been with me for most of my life. Finally, I’ve started working on a memoir. I still plan to indie pub Gypsy on…

  • Free Week Results…so far

    I am not a marketing genius; the past 5 free days were my publisher’s idea. Wow it was fun. I printed out the page showing Blue Heaven at the top of the chart. It’s fun being #1. Today’s a different story, of course. Everyone got the book free and it’s down somewhere around 500K in…

  • Teaching Memoir

    Saturday I moderated my first writing group for DWW. We had a large room for the event, and three sessions going at once. Kathleen did poetry, Mira explored journaling, and I talked about memoir. Aside from teaching what I know about memoir,  which is fun all by itself, it was also a thrill to get to know other Detroit women writers.…

  • Memoir

    Am reading Natalie Goldberg’s new book, Old Friend From Far Away. It’s about how to write memoir. There are tons of exercises, which I have not been doing. But I’ve been enjoying the book anyway and right in the middle of it I realized I’m writing a lot of memoir these days. I was trying…