by Peter Gibb | May 25, 2017 | General, Memoir Art
photo credit: Pixabay The Origin of Story Since the beginning of time, our ancestors recognized the power of story. When the first hunters returned to the cave, those waiting back home grunted, “How was your day, Dear?” And the hunters, novices at story telling, drew...
by Peter Gibb | May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
Memoir and haiku are unlikely playmates. Memoir, of course, is rooted in the past.. The haiku that I’m talking about here, by contrast, is focused, deliberately and explicitly, on the present. Writing haiku is, in fact, a kind of mindfulness practice....
by Peter Gibb | May 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the first three blogs of this series about “What makes a memoir great?” I wrote about emotionally engaging the reader through story (#1); character (#2) and theme (#3). From a writer’s perspective, each of these topics fits broadly under the...
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