After four years of working on my memoir, I (with the help of the Memoir Incubator!) finally finished my first draft. Truth be told, I spent more time freaking out about writing my book than...
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09/27/22 Rewriting Revision
Getting feedback from fresh readers (that is, readers who are new to my novel) has been instrumental in my revision process. Initially, I worried I wasn’t good enough to share my work with other...
09/27/22 Taking Time to Write
When I decided to take my first writing class at Project Write Now, what if questions crept in. What if my writing is awful? What if the other people in the class are way better than me? What if I can...
09/22/22 Spotlight
In 2015, I got a spark of an idea for a novel based on a strange, chance encounter with some family members. In 2019, I began drafting scenes, but then, life got busy. I put my idea on the shelf. In ...
09/15/22 Getting It Done
Last spring, while visiting colleges with my daughter, we watched our favorite show, "Naked and Afraid." I don’t know why but we only watch it when we stay in a hotel, not at home.
09/08/22 Trust the Process
This is the origin story of our mascot, and book inc, too. Our founding members launched our writing collective in the earliest days of the lockdown, motivated by the idea that writing a successful n...
09/01/22 Inside the Memoir Incubator
Twenty-five days and counting. 23 days and counting. 20 days and counting! These are the daily posts we receive from our co-leaders in our Memoir Incubator Slack account as we count down to our Septem...
08/25/22 Taking Time to Write
People say, “If you want a task done quickly, ask a busy person to do it.” Meaning a busy person manages time wisely and gets things done while someone with more free time might squander away hour...
08/19/22 Writers Playlist
As we approach September, our Incubator writers are frantically finishing their manuscripts. They are typing sentences, moving sections from Scrivener into Word and back again, fretting over italics v...
08/18/22 Getting It Done
A couple of months ago, I was feeling sluggish. I was weary from travel, work, and a foot injury. I found myself knocked out of my usual writing schedule. I began to fret over my memoir-in-progress th...
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