All in Thoughts on Writing
Over the past year—with the intention of bringing Eight Septembers: Woman on Wall Street into the public sphere—I have completed a number of manuscript assessments and professional edits designed to elevate my memoir to publishing standards. In the process, I have learned that the business of book publishing is much different than the craft of book writing. Here is some of what I discovered…
In memory of my father, J.W.A. “Doc” Buyers 7/17/28-5/20/06
It was like this:
He lay emaciated on the bed
What happened to my body?
I fed him ice chips…
My unpublished memoir was named a finalist in the memoir category of the 10th annual Maxy Awards! The contest is a fundraiser for the Home of the Innocents in Louisville Kentucky and funds raised are matched by Clinical Behavior Analysis…
This weekend, I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion at the Amelia Island Book Festival…
This is the 23rd season of the Amelia Island Book Festival, which celebrates the love of reading and supports literacy in Nassau County, Florida…
For a good part of my life, I was dependent on external validation for my self worth. This put me at the mercy of others’ opinions, words, and judgments. It often left me trying to please people to gain their favor, at the expense of my own needs and desires…
Hello friends! While I have taken the summer off from blogging, things have been progressing nicely on my memoir project…
When you’re working on a memoir, you spend a lot of time thinking about how to tell your story—what to tell, how much to tell, and how to tell it truthfully…
In a recent writing class, our prompt was to experiment with different ways of telling a story by altering perspectives and tenses to play with distance between the writer and the reader. We were given specific voices and tenses to use. I had fun retelling this event from my childhood. Enjoy!…
A small group of us gather together each week on the second floor of The Book Loft, a charming independent book store on Centre Street in Fernandina Beach…
Sometimes I like to use acrostics to help the creative process.
When I sit down to write, I
Reflect on my past and
Imagine that I might have been a different person,
That things might have gone differently
If only I had been less
Naive and
Gullible
And yet as soon as I write those words, I
See that I am being too hard on myself and am not…
