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how i finished my memoir

When I was a young girl, a small glass ball threaded by a thin plastic rope through a pinhole hung over the lock of my double hung window in my bedroom. When the brazen sun enveloped the plant vase and took hold of the gnarly roots, I wouldn’t just see budding foliage, but tiny rainbows upon the refraction of light. [...]

Nancy Chadwick2017-03-03T21:53:42+00:00March 3, 2017|Categories: book publishing, book writing, home, inspiration for writers, memoir, spiritual writing, writing inspiration|Tags: Memoir, publish, Writer, Writing, writing life|

what I Learned from my first-time interview with a newspaper reporter

This post originally appeared on SheWrites.com. I'm sharing with fellow writers should you and your writing be in a similar situation when embarking on promotional opportunities. I few weeks ago I contacted an editor at Pioneer Press (local publication and sub of Chicago Tribune) to tell him I was a writer and I had something to share with my community [...]

Nancy Chadwick2017-02-10T18:04:31+00:00February 10, 2017|Categories: memoir, memoir writing, writers, Writing|Tags: Memoir, nonfiction writing, publish, Writer, writing life, writing process|

a developmental journey

I doubted the day would come. I had been working on my memoir for over 10 years, admittedly at a more stop than go pace, chronicling the timeline of my youth, coming of age to adult years. I had recorded memories, nestled them in my mind as if contributing to my DNA, creating a map to become the person I [...]

Nancy Chadwick2017-01-31T18:25:54+00:00January 31, 2017|Categories: book writing, home, inspiration for writers, manuscript, memoir, memoir writing, nonfiction writing, writers, Writing, writing process|Tags: Memoir, Writer, writing life|

riding the wave of a writing contest submission

Last fall I won a writing contest for The Magic of Memoir edited by Linda Joy Myer and Brooke Warner of She Writes Press. This was a first time I entered a writing contest and a first win for anything that had to do with my writing. A win at anything says it all, a handshake in welcome, validation that [...]

Nancy Chadwick2017-01-16T21:25:50+00:00January 16, 2017|Categories: inspiration for writers, memoir, memoir writing, nonfiction writing, writers, Writing, writing inspiration, writing process|Tags: Memoir, publish, Writer, writing life|

part II, the problem with memoirs

I can understand Genzlinger’s irritability with the memoir genre becoming over-inflated. Memoirs seem to be riding the wave of too much sharing and providing an over-supply of personal information. In Part I from a previous post, I shared Genzlinger’s guidelines to would-be memoirists from his essay, “The Problem with Memoirs,” published in The New York Times. He felt that three [...]

Nancy Chadwick2017-01-12T16:39:00+00:00January 12, 2017|Categories: book publishing, book writing, home, inspiration for writers, manuscript, memoir, memoir writing, nonfiction writing, writers, Writing, writing life, writing process|Tags: life lessons, life story, Memoir, publish, Writer, writing inspiration|

a problem with memoirs

Recently during a Google search, “The Problem with Memoirs” popped up. Neil Genzliner wrote it for The New York Times. As a memoir writer, I never considered memoirs having a problem, but apparently Genzliner did. “A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up,” he said. This writer was successful in delivering his goal; he got my [...]

Nancy Chadwick2017-01-04T21:21:41+00:00January 4, 2017|Categories: book writing, memoir, memoir writing, nonfiction writing, Writing|Tags: life story, Memoir, Writer, writing process|

a wish

Wishing all my followers a Happy Holiday from all things Under the Birch Tree. ?

Nancy Chadwick2016-12-20T18:41:55+00:00December 20, 2016|Categories: memoir, writers|Tags: Memoir, Writer|

Know When To Fold, a reblog

I found the lead to this story buried in the last paragraph. But reading through Allison Williams' thought process to get her to that point was a shared experience by most writers.

Nancy Chadwick2016-10-10T17:55:22+00:00October 10, 2016|Categories: book publishing, book writing, manuscript, memoir, writers, Writing, writing process|Tags: publish, Writer, writing life|

i just want to write

I recently completed an online survey in answer to a request by one of those writer’s magazines. They wanted to know what I wanted to read in their magazine. It took only minutes to click my answers to their straightforward questions. But when I finished, I screamed, “I just want to write.” The purpose of the survey was to gain [...]