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A collection of posts on memoir writing, personal history, and self-publishing by Modern Memoirs’ staff

Ali de Groot
February 5, 2019

Sitting in the Reader’s Chair

Ali de Groot
February 5, 2019
Sitting in the Reader’s Chair

…we all peeled away our facades; we told the truth. The awful, perfect truth.

Tagged: writing, memoirs, reading, read aloud, memoir group, stories, autobiography, works in progress, book group

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Ali de Groot
January 2, 2019

Reviving a family in writing

Ali de Groot
January 2, 2019
Reviving a family in writing

“…perhaps someday our tangled lives will be understood.”

Tagged: family history, memoir, memoirs, writing, book writing, publishing, self publishing, healing

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Ali de Groot
November 30, 2018

Letters from a father to his daughter

Ali de Groot
November 30, 2018
Letters from a father to his daughter

“Imagine opening a book and finding your life unfold before you, chapter after chapter, from the day you were born.”

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Kitty Axelson-Berry
November 1, 2018

As-told-to memoirs start with Mom

Kitty Axelson-Berry
November 1, 2018
As-told-to memoirs start with Mom

“Toothpaste will remove small scratches from glass.”

Tagged: memoirs, mothers and daughters, as-told-to memoir, writing, life story, interviewing family, family history, recipes, medical history, letters, WWII, death and memoirs

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Ali de Groot
October 3, 2018

Writing and healing: How bereavement became a book

Ali de Groot
October 3, 2018
Writing and healing: How bereavement became a book

“Fear almost consumed me during the writing.
Now the fear is a memory, and my mother, a real person.”

Tagged: writing, bereavement, memoirs, self publishing, healing, personal history, death, book writing, mother, daughter, bereavement writing

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