Fiction: Helena Writes #52_On following your characters where they lead
In her 52nd post, Helena shares another chapter from her favorite of her original works, Ruthie Pincus of Brooklyn.
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Nonfiction: Helena Writes #51_On loss and holidays past
In her 51st post, Helena reflects on the loss of her son's father and the first holiday without him.
Nonfiction: Helena Writes #47--On mother-son writing and following your thoughts
In her 47th post, Helena offers a short piece of writing by her adult son, an example of stream of consciousness-style writing, plus a call to try it yourself.
Poetry and fiction: Helena Writes #46--Impressions and imagined endings
Helena offers some poetic “impressions” from her daily journaling practice, plus a requested and imagined end to the two-part monkey story from March and May.
Memoir: Helena Writes #44--Part 2, On the departure from one's parents
In her 44th post, Helena Clare Pittman tells the second part of her March story of adolescent rebellion.
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What is memoir?
A memoir isn’t about recording everything that’s ever happened to us. It’s about building a narrative around a soul theme.
Memoir: Helena Writes #43--On the departure from one's parents
When I was fourteen and life had taken its hormonal turn, pushing me out of the childhood home that I thought was permanent, I bought a monkey...
Story: Helena Writes #42: On opening the images and memories we carry
[I began] opening the images I carried with me to find the experience, the meaning, the feeling, the story...As I wrote them, they became...the story of my first-generation American family...
Helena Writes #36: On first memories, and memoir writing as a puzzle
My older sister, Jolene, was the ringleader in our sister group. It was a group of only us two...We were an organism. Where did she stop and I begin? I can't find a fixed edge...