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Il faut cultiver notre jardin,” —Voltaire

For those of us who don’t do fancy French, this means:

“We must cultivate our garden,” says Pangloss at the end of Voltaire’s Candide.

No sentiment could be truer for women who write. Stop focusing on the whole wide world. Instead, maintain a space that is your own and encourages the fruits of your labors to blossom.

But the process of growing our garden requires the right tools. Reading this blog and learning how to revise your own stories could help you cultivate your garden, obtain peace of mind, and establish your writing legacy. Happy reading and writing!

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Get Your Selfie Stick: It’s Memoir Time

Get Your Selfie Stick: It’s Memoir Time

Sure, you run a greater risk of being seen—and judged—when you write about yourself, but is memoir really just the smatterings of a self-involved sociopath? Can anything literary actually be gleaned?

For a genre believed to be rooted in navel-gazing nonsense, there sure are a lot of memoirs getting published—and purchased.

“What is memoir? Is it the same as autobiography?”

When it comes to writing memoir, we’ve much to unpack. Buckle up.

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