by Saundra Goldman | Aug 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with some of you about your writing. Here are a few comments I’ve heard on repeat: I keep coming back to this idea.I am haunted by this story. I hear this voice in my head,...
by Saundra Goldman | Aug 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is the third and last post in this series about memoir. I would love to know if it has sparked any ideas for your own work and/or if the questions I’ve posed were useful. Feel free to hit reply, and let me know. As I shared a few weeks ago, I started...
by Saundra Goldman | Aug 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week, I wrote about my initial venture into writing memoir and how I was motivated in part by self-pity and feeling isolated. If you missed it, I posed some questions regarding your own writing projects that you may find useful. The link...
by Saundra Goldman | Jul 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot about the process of writing memoir and how it transforms you. Over the next few weeks, I want to a share few ways that writing my memoir has changed me, with the hope that you might find something of value for your own work. SOME...
by Saundra Goldman | Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Why read memoirs by Black authors? I received this question from a fellow writer a few days ago. My first reaction was, are you kidding? Then I remembered the wisdom of a dear writing friend: Check yourself, she said. She may not know. The question came from a...
by Saundra Goldman | Jun 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
You’ve probably seen and/or downloaded some of the anti-racist reading lists circulating on the Internet. White Fragility and How to Be an Anti-Racist are a few books that are on my nightstand now. If for some reason you haven’t laid eyes on any of these lists and...
