by Yolande House | Sep 22, 2019 | Writing
Following up on my last post about free online writing courses, here are the most transformative paid online writing courses I’ve taken. I resisted paying for a writing course for a long time. Then a fiction-writing friend declared they changed her writing...
by Yolande House | Mar 17, 2019 | Writing
I’m touched by the enthusiastic feedback for my recent Hippocampus Magazine article, “How to Write About Trauma in a Safe(r) Way.” I’m honored that so many people including therapists (!) find it helpful. Knowing this makes the challenges that led to...
by Yolande House | Aug 6, 2015 | Writing
Eat, Pray, Love was one of those books I hated for years before reading it. The set-up of visiting three “I”-countries was a little too convenient to be authentic, and the whole thing came off to me as a lot more pre-planned than the book or its author...
by Yolande House | Jun 9, 2015 | Writing
In sharing my work for critique with other writers, I am learning that the process of writing memoir can be hard for writers of other genres to understand. I find I often get the same feedback over and over, and it’s not always possible to incorporate all...
by Yolande House | Jun 2, 2015 | Writing
I’ve decided to dust off this old thing and start blogging about my writing process again. The timing reflects the fact that I’ve begun to write more seriously again. After a big life change a few years ago, I almost completely stopped writing, other than...
by Yolande House | Apr 14, 2010 | Writing
1. Buy a cake for your book launch. Preferably a big one. 2. Write “BOOK LAUNCH” in gigantic letters on the cake. 3. Walk around the grocery store with this in your cart. That’s it! I did this in the fall when my...
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