Lara Lillibridge, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/laralillibridge/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:13:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 How I Turned My Blog Into A Book: Lara Lillibridge https://booksbywomen.org/how-i-turned-my-blog-into-a-book-lara-lillibridge/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-i-turned-my-blog-into-a-book-lara-lillibridge/#respond Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:04:57 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=26308 I won’t lie, I started my Only Mama blog with the hopes of turning it into a book someday. I read mommy bloggers religiously. I was dying to add to the conversation about mothering—not just on the internet, but in paper as well. I blogged heavily for the first year, but when I went back […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-i-turned-my-blog-into-a-book-lara-lillibridge/feed/ 0 26308 The Importance of Writing as a Mother https://booksbywomen.org/the-importance-of-writing-as-a-mother-lara-lillibridge/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-importance-of-writing-as-a-mother-lara-lillibridge/#respond Sat, 06 Apr 2019 11:02:27 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=26306 I wrote in the beginning of Mama, Mama, Only Mama, Memoir is a hard beast for family to live with; just ask my mother. At the very beginning of my writing career I sat in a memoir workshop and listened to writers argue about the ethics of writing about children. Yet, raising children has been […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-importance-of-writing-as-a-mother-lara-lillibridge/feed/ 0 26306 Beyond Revision—Weirding Up Your Writing https://booksbywomen.org/beyond-revision-weirding-up-your-writing-by-lara-lillibridge/ https://booksbywomen.org/beyond-revision-weirding-up-your-writing-by-lara-lillibridge/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2018 06:55:11 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22298 What do you do when you’ve written and rewritten a piece, and it still falls flat? Some approaches to re-vision an essay that is refusing to cooperate.  I wrote six beautiful, heart-breaking pages and electronically submitted them to my advisor. It was a great story.  Her reply was something along the lines of, “That last […]

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