Kindness to Myself In The Pages of My Memoir
originally posted on Kind Over Matter.com August 2017 Confession time. I’m a memoiraholic. Mr. Webster and his logophiles (word-loving compadres) would define me thusly: one who loves narrative composed of personal experience to excess. Guilty. As. Charged. One of the reasons I love the memoir genre is that memoirs are an unself-conscious dive down […]
Why Parenting a Child With a Rare Illness Isn’t Easy on The Mighty
“Eighteen blue, silver and white gift bags, stuffed with contrasting tissue paper lined the table. Aaron and his brother moved from bag to bag, exploring the contents together. Each bag sported a number from one through 18. He’d made it to 18. We’d made it to his 18th birthday.” Continue reading the rest of my […]
Sponsor Love: What’s Your Story? on Kind Over Matter
“Don’t we all need to try just one more thing? Have you been dreaming of writing a book? Maybe you perched on a dock somewhere this summer, or swung in the hammock with a wish and a need to write about your life just burning in your heart.” See the full post here.
The Number ONE way to get started on your memoir–an online course
There’s big news over here at pattimhall.com. I’m launching the Memoir Writing Studio and the first course–my signature course What’s Your Story? is my first offering. Writing is difficult enough…let me help you get your pen to paper. There is nothing more inspiring than words on the page. It’s that simple. A paragraph, a […]
Don’t Wait for Answers to These Questions–they aren’t comin’
Over on Huffington Post, I’m coming clean about the questions that just won’t be getting answered to your satisfaction before the memoir gets rolling. you can read it Here: or scroll down. Those questions that run through your mind like a song on repeat.. We all have plaguing, nagging questions that get in our way […]
My Eureka Moment from Kind Over Matter
My road to discovering boundaries involved a lot of advice, but none was so valuable as someone actually telling me what boundaries were. Oh yes, it happened. Have a read at Kind Over Matter today. My Eureka Moment: Learning How To Create Boundaries
Wine Talk Wednesday with Lara of KindOverMatter.com
I joined Lara from Kind Over Matter for Wine Talk Wednesday! “The coming out is how we start to look at our lives. We need to take the opportunity to look at the things that recur to us. If they revisit you repeated, in different forms from dreams to sensory flashbacks, you’re getting the less than […]
What Every Memoir Writer Must Eventually Decide — HuffingtonPost.com
“One of the unique features of humanity is our desire to be part of a community of storytellers and listeners. I have a simple explanation for why I can conclude this with confidence—if stories were not so important in our interaction with each other, why would we spend so much time talking? Our stories compiled, […]
Revisiting Angst to Find More Meaning This Time
Memoir writing holds our hand to the flame. It is a funhouse mirror when we start, things are all distorted and stretched and squished, almost unrecognizable. But clarity does come after the umpteenth draft. Writing memoir is our chance to relive moments that were incomprehensible and find meaning in them. Sometimes you find just the […]
At What Cost?
Eighteen blue, silver and white gift bags, stuffed with contrasting tissue paper lined the table. Each sported a number from 1 to 18. However typical it was of me to overdo things with gift giving, especially when it came to my boys, this was a milestone made grander by the medical ordeals my son Adam […]
Meet Patti M. Hall
Patti M Hall is a writer, ghostwriter, proud #Memoiraholic and book coach. Online Patti creates inspirational content for aspiring memoirists, wannabe writers and folks who love putting pen to paper. Patti's real home is in Canada where she lives with her massive #memoir library, two giant sons and a pack of golden retrievers.