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LINKS: Essays, Journaling, Memoirs & Personal Histories
- 550+ Journal Prompts: The Ultimate List
- https://dayoneapp.com/blog/journal-prompts/
- Just what it says, divided into a number of useful categories.
- Can You Tell Your Own True Story Even If It Impinges on the Privacy of Your Lovers, Friends, and Family?
- http://www.rightsofwriters.com/2011/01/can-you-tell-your-own-true-story-even.html
- A Guide to Journaling for Writers
- https://www.writingforward.com/creative-writing/journal-writing
- A long and detailed look at the benefits of journaling for writers.
- How to Keep a Writing Journal You Won't Neglect
- https://www.autocrit.com/blog/writing-journal/
- How to Sell an Essay or Article: 21 Tips for Writing a Winning Cover Letter
- https://www.writersdigest.com/getting-published/how-to-sell-an-essay-writing-a-cover-letter
- How to Write a Memoir: Examples and a Step-by-Step Guide
- https://writers.com/how-to-write-a-memoir
- Peering at Privacy in Creative Nonfiction
- https://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_chronicle_view/2019/peering_at_privacy_in_creative_nonfiction
- Publish Your Personal Essay: 22 Magazines and Websites
- https://thewritelife.com/personal-essay/
- Three Important Privacy Issues in Memoir
- https://www.writersdigest.com/general/3-important-privacy-issues-in-memoir
- The Twenty Top Tips for Writing Memoir
- https://marionroach.com/twenty-top-tips-for-writing-memoir/
- Click on the highlighted title of each tip in this introductory section to be taken to a complete article on that particular topic - this is practically an entire book online!
- A Writer's Guide to Defamation and Invasion of Privacy
- https://www.writersdigest.com/publishing-faqs/defamation-and-invasion
- Primarily addressing memoir, this article discusses the balance between telling your story and invading the privacy of others.
- WriteMyMemoirs.com
- https://writemymemoirs.com/
- A free site to help users write their autobiography or memoirs.
- Write Personal Essays and Get Paid: 16 Markets for Freelancers
- https://makealivingwriting.com/get-paid-to-write-personal-essays/
- WritingItReal
- https://writingitreal.com/
- Focusing on personal writing, including essays, poetry and journaling. Offers regular writing tips and exercises and a newsletter (by paid subscription).
- Writing Life Stories for the Inspirational or Religious Markets
- https://www.writerswrite.com/journal/writing-life-stories-9995
- Writing to Heal, Writing to Grow
- https://www.writingtoheal.com/
- This site focuses on therapeutic memoir-writing, journaling and essay-writing; it also features an extensive list of markets for personal essays.
- Your Visual Journal
- https://yourvisualjournal.com/
- An interesting site on journaling, including a list of 301+ Journal Prompts for Freedom and Insight.
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Becoming a successful writer isn't just about mastering great writing skills. It's also about overcoming the challenges and obstacles of the writing life: Rejection, fear of failure, lack of time, writer's block, the "Am I Really a Writer?" syndrome, and, of course, friends and family who just don't get it.
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