Congratulations on completing a very challenging micro-memoir session.
You wrote a lot of wonderful stories and intelligently discussed several topical micro-memoirs and two micro books.
In this lively discussion, you all talked about what you learned from this micro-memoir session, your plans to continue to write micro, and what you are taking with you into your future writing projects.
Thank you for all your hard work and for sharing the many stories you wrote.
In this video:
00:00:01 - Congratulations on all your hard work!
00:00:59 - High participation levels
00:01:55 - Discussion questions for our session
00:03:08 - Judy Fink's love of micro-memoir
00:03:45 - Dave Godin on the how to limited word counts helped
00:05:24 - Julie Folkert loved and hated micro
00:05:58 - John Roche found a name of what he's been writing
00:06:37 - Norma Beasley enjoyed the many micro structures
00:07:59 - Barbara Rawls says writing short opened a whole new world for her
00:08:31 - The benefit of writing using various structures
00:09:23 - Etya Krichmar says micro-memoir is not her genre
00:10:31 - Betty Patterson's thoughts on Jennifer Lang's work
00:13:16 - Dave Godin's thoughts on the context of micro-memoirs
00:14:35 - Dates of Life Writers breaks
00:15:12 - How micro-memoir includes emotion
00:16:10 - Dar Lamb's love of micro-memoir and submission to a contest
00:18:02 - Jay Baron Nicorvo's difficulties with getting his book, "Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir," published
00:19:10 - Lorna Deane's experience with reducing the word count
00:19:51 - Repeating words in micro-memoir and its more relaxed style
00:21:43 - Lisa Marie Webb addition of micro-memoir in her writing toolbox and ease of reading micro stories
00:23:15 - Patricia's promise to complete her micro-memoir series
00:24:48 - Allison Wearing, author of memoir and micro-memoir
00:26:12 - Micro-memoir anthology
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