Write On. Right Now.

NO MORE WRITING EXERCISES. Have any of those stupid prompts or morning pages ever gotten you published? Has writing from the right side of your brain, or getting in touch with your angel’s feather, or scribbling pages put you where you want to be as a writer? I doubt it. I suspect that those manners of nonsense have instead stolen what little time you had for writing. How do I know? Because the memoir class I’ve taught for 12 years is filled with people recovering from those very exercises, people whose sole relationship to writing was practicing, not writing for real. Right now, I’m running two Master Classes consisting of a total of 24 people who have made the New Year commitment to finish their books by the end of June 2010. They are writing for real. Want to join the wave of success?

Of course, if you’ll just sign up for the weekly newsletter from TSP (hint, hint), you’ll get all the upcoming memoir tips delivered to you regularly, though right now, why not just get writing? You can, that is if you are willing to:

• Write it down: The what and how to writing for real is right here. It’s easy to start.

• Think in propinquities: How to get a unique slant on your pieces. It’s worth the effort.

• Look deeply in a family photograph: You’ll get more than you ever expected.

• Make lists: Utilize the device of lists to make them unforgettable pieces of memoir.

• Take notes: At family holidays, and every day.

• Get over it: That block you have about there being another version of the same family story.

• Make nothing up: Never again be tempted to make up another single detail of your life.

• Chop it down: Learn to edit as you go.

Write on.

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