Posts Tagged Creativity

The Virtues of Vulnerability

By Suzanne Sherman on February 5, 2020 / Living the Writing Life, Memoir Writing

When is a writer vulnerable? How about every day. In her still-popular Ted Talk, “The Power of Vulnerability,” a research professor who has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and the best-selling author of several books on related topics, Brene Brown says that part of

Journaling: The Precious Pulse

By Suzanne Sherman on October 2, 2012 / Living the Writing Life

Journaling was my first best friend growing up. I didn’t know it with that first hardcover diary with lock and tiny key someone gave me for my 10th birthday, but it wasn’t long before I found out just how good it was to write about what was going on and

Like Watching a Stranger’s Travel Slides

By Suzanne Sherman on June 23, 2012 / Memoir Writing

Writing memoir is an interesting mix of ingredients. It’s personal story. It’s heartfelt expression. It’s writing in your true voice. But when we want others to read what we’ve written, it has to be all of this and so much more. How do you move a story from the personal

The Power of Inner Peace

By Suzanne Sherman on May 7, 2012 / Memoir Writing

Jill Bolte Taylor is a neurologist and the renowned author of My Stroke of Insight, which describes her experience and insights gained from a stroke she suffered at age 37. One of her “strokes of insight” is that inner peace is just a thought away. Inner peace is just a

Alma

By Suzanne Sherman on February 18, 2012 / Memoir Writing

At 26 I led my first writing workshop at the dining room table of my San Francisco flat, overlooking rooftops and traffic winding along Highway 101. I hadn’t been able to find the workshop I wanted, so I created one, and gave groups of writers what I was looking for:

Inviting the Muse

By Suzanne Sherman on January 25, 2012 / Living the Writing Life, Memoir Writing

I hear about it all the time. People tell me they write when they’re inspired. Some write on a schedule, or at least they aspire to. And some people write by the seasons; wintertime becomes a perfect time to create and polish. Author Terry Tempest Williams is one who writes

Shadow Boxes

By Suzanne Sherman on January 11, 2012 / Living the Writing Life

Shadow boxes fascinated me as a little girl. You could cut out cardboard in the shapes of people and furniture, fold a bottom edge of each piece and glue it to the inside of a shoe box, cut a quarter-sized hole in the narrow end of it, peek inside, and