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- How I accidentally left voice out of my own childhood memoir
- Back Story Does Not Go in the Front
- Changing the author’s point of view so we have the spirited hero we need.
- Signing up for a workshop–Nothing Right Now
- Praise for the column
- How The Book Consulting Works
- Praise for the workshop
- Praise from Published Students
- Praise for Naked, Drunk and Writing
Category Archives: writing the memoir
Back Story Does Not Go in the Front
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, … Continue reading
Changing the author’s point of view so we have the spirited hero we need.
It’s asking a lot. A writing teacher –someone like me –casually says: “That version of your past, the one you’ve been carrying around all your life? Doesn’t work for a reader. Too victim-y. just change your whole point of … Continue reading
How The Book Consulting Works
You have a writing project in mind, and want to get some advice on it. The best way to begin is to come over to my house for a kitchen-table meeting for a couple of hours. It’s a big kitchen, with … Continue reading
Praise for the workshop
Praise for the workshop Half the people I know seem to haven take classes and workshops with San Francisco’s legendary writer and teacher Adair Lara. She is very savvy and smart and hugely entertaining. I admire her greatly. Adair Lara … Continue reading
Praise from Published Students
Jacqueline Winspear, author of the Maisie Dobbs series When I first met Adair, I wasn’t at all sure where I ultimately wanted to go as a writer – although I did, and still do, harbor a deep wish … Continue reading
Students write funny things about the workshop
The Ruin of a Writer It’s Saturday afternoon and I sit at my computer, pounding away at a fragmentary ideaWHAT IDEA? that just might blossom into an essay or a story. I am oblivious to the bright sunshine that has … Continue reading
Adair’s Published Articles On Writing: Tone, Angle, Memoir or Novel, The Arc of Your Memoir
http://www.writersdigest.com/author/adair-lara in Writers Digest “Find an Angle to Bring Your Subject to Life.”