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By Marion Roach Smith
THE SUMMER SLUMP. This is a tough time for writers–that time of year when the most seductive set of temptations to not write beckon: the great outdoors and all its wonders. I mean, who can write in this weather? Who can write when you could instead: swim/sail/run/play tennis/golf/hike, whatever? You can. That is, if you’ll willing to do a simple things. Are you? Then come along.
THINK IN PROPINQUITIES, says Marion, and yes, she knows: The phrase makes her sound like a librarian. But the wacky word is a reminder to think of your angle shots when you write up a topic like a family holiday. Don’t give us a Polaroid of the day, she says, on your blog or in your journal, but rather some side view that illustrates how you learned a new way to give thanks–like the one she discovered when she brought a New York City cab driver to Thanksgiving dinner. The tale, and the memoir tips.
MARION’S BACK where she loves to be, three weeks into teaching a new class on memoir. And it’s a great class: Twenty-one eager writers, all with their own tales, all willing to do the work to get the pieces down. Her favorite problem last week was from one fine young writer who simply admitted, “My story is too big.” Ah. Yes. Too big. Whose isn’t? How to wrestle a big story to the ground.
EVERYONE HAS A STORY to tell, whether on paper or in digital pages. But are we writing it as well as we’d like, or are we just saying more? Would some how-to tips help, perhaps? Sister Marion has them all.
IN THE GALLERIES: Paintings by AMANDA BLAKE.
First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
As the suffix of its name suggests, TSP's Sisterpedia
is the reference section, one we’re hoping you’ll help us grow to maturity by adding your knowledge in the comments. Turn us on to new facts and figures, whether for the branch of our ‘library’ called Sistory (history from a sister point of view, from the Muses of ancient Greece to 60s Girl Groups and beyond) or the one called Sibling Science (what makes sisters tick, genetically and behaviorally). Or just click around and have a good read. See you there. 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men.
TSP’s Galleries were created to show off that outpouring of art and craft, poetry and prose. Come see a show or two—no ticket required, no lines to get in—and suggest others whose work we ought to showcase.
