Author Archives: first person productions
I Can’t Join the Tennis Team
The “Season of Sports” continues! What has been the role of competitive sports in your life? Comment! Or better yet, send me your stories to publish. See guidelines here. By Joan Collins As told to Sarah White at a story capture event for … Continue reading
Get Your Skates On!
The “Season of Sports” continues… By Linda Lenzke “I want anyone who has ever said or felt that women are weak in any way to strap on a pair of skates and play two minutes of roller derby with them.” … Continue reading
Me@20: Trial by Firelight
We pause in the True Stories Well Told “Season of Sports” to celebrate the Association of Personal Historians‘ 20th anniversary with a “Me@20” post. Around the world, personal historians are blogging and posting to social media, reminiscing about our life … Continue reading
The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football
Every time I stumble on a line of inquiry, I discover “there’s a book for that!” With the “Season of Sports” opening on True Stories Well Told, I went a-googling, and found The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football: … Continue reading
Competitive Sports
I’ve been thinking about competitive sports lately. It started with musings triggered by plans to go see the Mad Rollin’ Dolls with a few of my fearless, peerless writer friends, with hopes of blogging about the experience. (We’re doing a … Continue reading
Tricks memory plays…
My memoir writing workshop spring season continues… and so does my learning and growing, because I get as much from my students as they (I hope) get from me. In class we’ve been discussing the tricks memory plays on us. … Continue reading
Archie Smith
By Doug Elwell This piece was written in response to the prompt “characters I have known.” Doug describes it as creative nonfiction: “Each of the characters are real. The setting is real. Dialogue is in the voice of the characters … Continue reading
Early Memories
A writer in one of my memoir classes a couple of years ago posed an interesting writing prompt from her training as a psychologist: “Recover three of your earliest memories with a feeling attached—then ask your immediate family to do … Continue reading
Who doesn’t love a good reading list?
Submissions to “True Stories Well Told” have slowed recently (hint, hint) so perhaps its time for some inspiration. Who doesn’t love a good reading list? Here’s my suggested reading for memoirists. Good books on writing memoirs: Your Life As Story: … Continue reading
Creative Nonfiction contest: Weather!
A while back I used to camp. A lot. And it rained. A lot. Finally that experience is worth something: I can enter Creative Nonfiction’s writing contest on the topic of Weather! Fifteen rainy outings in a row–that’s three years’ … Continue reading
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