Truth and Secrets

And there’s the hot topic in all my memoir workshops: secrets. Secrets are energy magnets. The force it takes to keep secrets hidden is energy that could be used for growth and creativity. So often though, the shame and guilt associated with secrets keep feeding the darkness and the fear. Secrets maintain a great power over us, and we are diminished by them.

Creativity and Memoir Writing

Brenda Ueland in her classic book If You Want To Write talks about the spark of creativity and the process of writing and creating, with inspirational flashes to show us how other writers and creators, painters, playwrights and poets come to hear their muse.
Quotes:
Inspiration comes very slowly and quietly.
And how do these creative thoughts come? [...]

Writing Moment by Moment

During my workshop, I encouraged everyone to come up with a “Turning Point List” of events that were significant in a deeply emotional or spiritual way, and then to write one of those stories.

Linda Joy Myers Memories and Memoirs March 2010 Newsletter Now Available Online!

 

Memories and Memoirs Newsletter | March 2010

Light, Daffodils, and Tomatoes
by Linda Joy Myers
The morning light splashes on the yellow daffodils, creating sun spots in the yard, a happy, nodding and smiling garden that responds to the warmth of the ever increasing sun.  We all feel this in March—our energy lifts and we eagerly look forward [...]

Book signing photos

From Book Signing Event, posted by Linda Joy Myers on 3/10/2010 (4 items)

Betsy, Linda Joy and Dianne

My agent, Verna Dreibach

Alan Rinzler from Jossey Bass

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