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December 18, 2025

What You Can Borrow From Hemingway When Writing Your Memoir

There are great writers who fade into oblivion. Then there’s Ernest Hemingway, whose prose is so popular that there’s a writing app that bears his name. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize because he was a damn good writer. Over his lifetime, he crafted tales about courage, endurance, the relentless… Continue reading

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December 4, 2025

Good Description

Good description isn’t about piling on adjectives or painting every corner of the room. It’s about choosing the right details—the few that illuminate the whole. Think of them as the load-bearing beams of your narrative. Select them well, and the entire scene stands up on its own. Readers don’t need a catalog of everything you… Continue reading

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November 27, 2025

How Do I Write My Memoir?

If you want to write your memoir, begin not with grand plans, but with a single bright shard of memory. Think of an event in your life—small or seismic—that refuses to fade. Or a person whose voice you can still hear. Or a place whose smell you could identify in the dark. That vividness is… Continue reading

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creative nonfiction

What You Can Borrow From Hemingway When Writing Your Memoir

Good Description

How Do I Write My Memoir?

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