Trying to get started on a story, novel, or memoir?

You don’t have to stare at a blank piece of paper or screen and stress about what you’ll write or how!

With a few useful tips, this workshop can get you started. You’ll learn there’s no single right way to approach the writing process, just what works for you. You’ll also learn about the goal of the messy first draft, try fun exercises to stretch your imagination, and ways to keep writing. And have fun doing it!

An engaging and inspiring workshop for NONOWRIMO!

Read more and Sign up here!

Trying to get started on a story, novel, or memoir?

You don’t have to stare at a blank piece of paper or screen and stress about what you’ll write or how!

With a few useful tips, this workshop can get you started. You’ll learn there’s no single right way to approach the writing process, just what works for you. You’ll also learn about the goal of the messy first draft, try fun exercises to stretch your imagination, and ways to keep writing. And have fun doing it!

An engaging and inspiring workshop for NONOWRIMO!

Trying to get started on a story, novel, or memoir?

You don’t have to stare at a blank piece of paper or screen and stress about what you’ll write or how!

With a few useful tips, this workshop can get you started. You’ll learn there’s no single right way to approach the writing process, just what works for you. You’ll also learn about the goal of the messy first draft, try fun exercises to stretch your imagination, and ways to keep writing. And have fun doing it!

An engaging and inspiring workshop for NONOWRIMO!

Trying to get started on a story, novel, or memoir?

You don’t have to stare at a blank piece of paper or screen and stress about what you’ll write or how!

With a few useful tips, this workshop can get you started. You’ll learn there’s no single right way to approach the writing process, just what works for you. You’ll also learn about the goal of the messy first draft, try fun exercises to stretch your imagination, and ways to keep writing. And have fun doing it!

Trying to get started on a story, novel, or memoir?

You don’t have to stare at a blank piece of paper or screen and stress about what you’ll write or how!

With a few useful tips, this workshop can get you started. You’ll learn there’s no single right way to approach the writing process, just what works for you. You’ll also learn about the goal of the messy first draft, try fun exercises to stretch your imagination, and ways to keep writing. And have fun doing it!

Trying to get started on a story, novel, or memoir? You don’t have to stare at a blank piece of paper or screen and stress about what you’ll write or how!

With a few useful tips, this workshop can get you started. You’ll learn there’s no single right way to approach the writing process, just what works for you. You’ll also learn about the goal of the messy first draft, try fun exercises to stretch your imagination, and ways to keep writing. And have fun doing it!

Are you or people you know in Marin County?

Then please join me for a Craft of Memoir and Personal Essay Writing Workshop

YOU’VE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY!

You’ll do some pressure-free writing and learn ways to get started, keep going and complete a meaningful memoir or personal essay!

Hope to see you there!

In this fun hands-on workshop, Linda Parker Hamilton covers all aspect of memoir including: why we write our stories, how to get started, how to keep going, how to make it a page-turner, how to finish the project, and even alternatives to writing.

Participants will leave this interactive workshop with a partial outline and story written and shared, as well as resources to keep you going.

Sign up here!

In this fun hands-on workshop, Linda Parker Hamilton covers all aspect of memoir including: why we write our stories, how to get started, how to keep going, how to make it a page-turner, how to finish the project, and even alternatives to writing.

Participants will leave this interactive workshop with a partial outline and story written and shared, as well as resources to keep you going.

Sign up here!

In this fun hands-on workshop, Linda Parker Hamilton covers all aspect of memoir including: why we write our stories, how to get started, how to keep going, how to make it a page-turner, how to finish the project, and even alternatives to writing.

Participants will leave this interactive workshop with a partial outline and story written and shared, as well as resources to keep you going.

Sign up here!

In this fun hands-on workshop, Linda Parker Hamilton covers all aspect of memoir including: why we write our stories, how to get started, how to keep going, how to make it a page-turner, how to finish the project, and even alternatives to writing.

Participants will leave this interactive workshop with a partial outline and story written and shared, as well as resources to keep you going.

Sign up here!

In this fun hands-on workshop, Linda Parker Hamilton covers all aspect of memoir including: why we write our stories, how to get started, how to keep going, how to make it a page-turner, how to finish the project, and even alternatives to writing.

Participants will leave this interactive workshop with a partial outline and story written and shared, as well as resources to keep you going.

Sign up here!

Join award-winning author and memoir/history publisher Linda Hamilton as she discusses the rise of the memoir in popular literature and how the personal memoir became something we can all create and share with those we love — AND why doing so is important! 

Then we’ll get into the nuts and bolts: 

• Getting started with your memoir & keeping it going

• Options for focus; assessing your goals

• What to include and not include

• Different process options for writers and non-writers

• How to get your stories into book form (as well as other forms)

This tailored presentation is for anybody who’s like to share their own story, young, old and in-between or anyone who has an elderly parent or grandparent who’s story you’d love to hear and save!

Sign up here! Sponsored by the San Mateo County Libraries.

How do you get your story on paper? Or those great stories your parent or grandparent always tells? And what about the stories they don’t tell, but you’d like to hear? And how do you take those stories, write them in a way that matters, and get them into a great-looking book for your family?

It can be done!!

Please join me and the San Mateo County Libraries!

Description

Have you thought about writing your life story for your family or for wider publication? Or do you have a parent or grandparent whose story you want to save?

Linda Parker Hamilton will provide tried and true tips for getting started, staying motivated, finishing the book, and creating stories that are both meaningful and fun to read! She will take you all the way from a blank piece of paper or an interview to book printing. And demystify some of the traditional advice for memoir writing.

Since 2006, Linda has written, edited, designed, and published over 40 memoirs, family histories, biographies, and histories with her business Stories to Last.

Register Here!