Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers Podcast
1) Brooke & Grant on How to Start or Restart Your Memoir (JanYourStory Prep)
This week we’re in full prep mode to write write write in January for our JanYourStory writing challenge. With that in mind, Brooke and and Grant tackle beginnings. How to start isn’t limited to how t...Show More
2) Kamy Wicoff and Deborah Siegel-Acevedo on The Power of Community (JanYourStory Prep)
This week’s interview with the cofounders of SheWrites.com, Kamy Wicoff and Deborah Siegel-Acevedo, is especially touching for Brooke because these two women are where it all started. This week’s inte...Show More
3) Laura Vanderkam on Making Time to Write (JanYourStory Prep)
This month we’re doing a series to get our listeners in the mindset to write! Once you have a goal and a deadline (last week’s show), the next hurdle you will invariably face is time—lack thereof or m...Show More
4) Chris Baty on The Magic of a Goal and a Deadline (JanYourStory Prep)
Through the month of December, Memoir Nation podcast is hosting a series called JanYourStory Prep to get listeners ready and excited to participate in our January writing challenge to write 500 words ...Show More
5) Susan Orlean on Writing the Story of a Life Well Lived
This week’s Memoir Nation is an onstage interview with Brooke and guest Susan Orlean, author of the new memoir, Joyride.
6) Beth Macy on Writing to Explore Why We’re So Divided
Memoir Nation guest Beth Macy’s new memoir, Paper Girl, offers us the opportunity to dive into a social-cultural discussion this week as we explore the forces that seek to divide us, and also that see...Show More
7) Julie Lythcott-Haims on Writing as an Act of Service
This week we delve into all the ways memoir can be transformative. In framing her own memoir as an act of service, Julie Lythcott-Haims helps us to contextualize what your memoir is for, who it’s for,...Show More
8) Julie Lythcott-Haims on Writing as an Act of Service
This week we delve into all the ways memoir can be transformative. In framing her own memoir as an act of service, Julie Lythcott-Haims helps us to contextualize what your memoir is for, who it’s for,...Show More
9) E. Jean Carroll on Untold Stories That Have To Be Told
This week we have a historically important memoirist on the show. E. Jean Carroll risked her privacy and her reputation to charge President Trump with sexual assault. He was convicted for those crimes...Show More
10) E. Jean Carroll on Untold Stories That Have To Be Told
This week we have a historically important memoirist on the show. E. Jean Carroll risked her privacy and her reputation to charge President Trump with sexual assault. He was convicted for those crimes...Show More