Tag: Book Recommendations
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How Dani Shapiro’s podcast, FAMILY SECRETS, inspired me to confront the shame of a family secret and write my memoir.
In 2019, I was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour and had surgery to have it removed. The surgery, though traumatic, went very well and all the pathology came back completely cancer-free. A relief, an immense blessing. Following my surgery, I spent several months at home quietly recuperating, which forced me to take time to…
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Read, read and read some more!
You’ve all heard it right? At the beginning of any writing 101 course we are told: to learn to write, you need to READ! As I began my journey to write my memoir, I realized that memoir was a genre that I had literally not spent too much time exploring. Yeah, I jumped on the…
Novice Memoirist 