Posted by Kathleen Pooler/@kathypooler
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” -Goethe
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“Four Years in a Memoir Writer’s Journey text:
Hi! Kathy Pooler. Welcome to Memoir Writer’s Journey. Thank you for joining me in my fourth blog-iversary celebration.
A lot has happened in these four years since I took a giant leap of faith and started a writing blog. We’ve been sharing memoir writing tips, “memoir moments”, and I’ve been chronicling my own journey to memoir as well as featuring other memoir writers and authors in guest posts and book tour promotions.
I’m very pleased to announce that my first memoir, Ever Faithful to His Lead: A Memoir About Choices is in its final editing stages and I am in the query process. My second memoir is currently a pile of vignettes waiting to be shaped into a story about my faith journey through simultaneous challenges of a cancer diagnosis and the downward spiral of my young adult son due to substance abuse.
People ask me, “Why do you want to share such a personal story?”
The only response I can come up with is: “Because I cannot NOT write it.”
I believe, very strongly, that we are all enriched, inspired and enlightened when we share our stories. And I believe hope matters. I want to share that hope and how I was able to climb out of the abyss and reach a life of peace and joy. I’m hopeful that others will be able to tap into their own stories and find some hope and climb out of their own abyss.
When I was thinking about what I wanted to say on my blog-iversary about these past four years, I decided that words really did not suffice so I created a slide show to music. The music is meant to convey inspiration, courage, persistence, friendship, community–all the things that you have provided of for me throughout these past four years.
So it is in celebration of my blog-iversary as well as in tribute to all of you that I present this slideshow.
4 years in a memoir writer’s journey from Kathleen Pooler on Vimeo.
Thank you all for joining me “around my kitchen table.” I hope you’ll keep coming back.
In a few weeks, I will be sending out a survey to get your feedback on how I can best serve your needs in 2014.
As always, I love to hear from you so please leave any comments below~
Thursday, 12/05/13: Author, Creativity Coach and Actor Bryan Cohen will discuss ” Using Sense Memory To Remember Story Details.” Bryan is the author of 1000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More” and will give away a free copy of his book to a random commenter.