Memoirous

“Sleigh Ride” 1948 Composer Leroy Anderson Lyricist Mitchell Parish Our cheeks are nice and rosy and comfy and cozy are we We’re snuggled up together like two birds of a feather would be Let’s take the road before us and sing a chorus or two Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you I thought about this song a few days ago while out on a walk with my grandson. You see, he was just having his first realization of “Snow Day.” Meaning, no school. A heavy snow had fallen and then a light rain, then a temperature drop. All this meant that the school district cancelled classes—thus, his nursery school followed suit. His sense of time and what it means has been getting more and more honed. The other day he said you know what today is? I said Wednesday. And he said, Winter. He’s beginning to understand the seasons, the divisions of time, how the day and seasons break down, what these sections are called. Out on a walk to do errands we went to ...

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  Many of us are looking to write memories—either in the form of literary memoir or simply to record family history. This how-to book looks at memoir in small, bite-size pieces, helping the writer to isolate or freeze-frame a moment and then distill it onto paper. Flash is generally anywhere between 1,500 words to as few as 66 (I've seen 6-word memoirs!). Since I began exploring the genre I've had over 30 flashes published. Lately I've also been teaching Flash Memoir. so this how-to book is a summation of my process, the approach I take to flush out a flash. Even if you are only interested in flash, or only in memoir, or only in fiction--I believe there is something in this small book that you can take away. Order  Freeze Frame: How To Write Flash Memoir  TODAY!

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