Comments on: Memoir Writing: Can’t Find My Way Back Home https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/ Sat, 20 Jun 2015 13:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Can’t Find My Way Home… | Words, words, words... https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-46417 Sat, 20 Jun 2015 13:42:53 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-46417 […] http://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/ […]

]]> By: Mel Churcher https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-39707 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:41:12 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-39707 In reply to Judith van Praag.

Thank you for your lovely comments – yes – think I’m going to self-publish. I shall try to find this link that doesn’t work…

]]> By: Judith van Praag https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-39706 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:18:53 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-39706 Ann (or Mel?),
You may be from SA and I from NL, I totally relate to every point you make, from what you remember and what not, from what you thought you made up, to find it proved to be true, all those different approaches in POV, the regret not to have asked more questions when it was still possible, and making peace with the past.
I hope we’ll get to exchange books soon, i.e. let’s get them out there!
Best,
Judith
PS the link to your website doesn’t work, odd characters in front of www need to be replaced by h t t p

]]> By: Mel Churcher https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-25025 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:23:58 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-25025 In reply to Aine Greaney.

Thank you Aine – I’m drafting and re-drafting & re-drafting – but one day it will be out there somewhere:) Good luck with all your writing.

]]> By: Aine Greaney https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-25020 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:55:24 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-25020 Wonderful piece. It’s true that our memories at best are flawed and it’s a real shock to do the research and find out just how flawed. I love your definition of truth. It sounds like a great book.

]]> By: Ann Churcher https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-20333 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:57:24 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-20333 In reply to Patty Kogutek.

How wonderful – I wish – so wish – I’d done that:)

]]> By: Ann Churcher https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-20332 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:56:11 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-20332 In reply to Marta.

Thank you for this – I have done so many drafts – but it is hard to be satisfied and hard to find it a home – I persevere:) (My memory is hazy & I wanted facts of place & time correct)

]]> By: Resurrecting the Murky Past | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-20269 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:02:37 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-20269 […] Read the whole thing. […]

]]> By: Marta https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-17169 Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:09:16 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-17169 I greatly enjoy memoirs of African childhoods and look forward to this one. There are as many ways to approach writing a memoir as there are people who do it. I like to work purely with memory and no outside confirmations.

]]> By: Patty Kogutek https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-writing-by-ann-churcher/#comment-17150 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:51:41 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10019#comment-17150 I love your tips. I made an “appointment” with my parents. They got all dressed up for their “interview” taking it very seriously. They talked, I wrote for 4 days. Wish my siblings could have been there. I recommend the parent “interview” for everyone, not just us memoir writers. Patty Kogutek

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