of essays from Literary mama magazine. Use your words: A writing guide for mothers introduces the readers to many good writers with their essays as examples to improve the craft of writing. This book depends so much on these examples that it seems like a sparse skeleton without those well fleshed out pieces of writing. Some authors make you weep through their experiences while others make you appreciate the original style they bring to writing.
The good thing about the writing exercises is that they can easily be extrapolated to any topic and not just motherhood. I feel that 'writing motherhood' by Lisa Garrigues is more geared towards motherhood.
If this is your first book on writing, then you will appreciate it, else most of it has been written of in many books and places.
After reading Chitra divakaruni 's Common scents , I could smell the mango leaves at the end of it.
Three takes on a jump. How others remember your story? I never jumped off a roof but I was the other person who when asked by a person wishing to jump off a roof, I said yes as an elementary school kid. And it wasnt even into sand. Why didnt I think it would hurt? Jill christman's another essay - The Allergy Diaries.
beth kephart and her write on wednesday
music in his genes by Sara Martin.
Catherine Newman's Pretty baby in Its a Boy Women Writers Raising sons
Samuel by Susan Ito. When she refers to evacuation of her baby to the Japanese past, I didnt realise it was coming from her ethnicity. Her columns
Anne Greenwood Brown's Insights and her interview
The good thing about the writing exercises is that they can easily be extrapolated to any topic and not just motherhood. I feel that 'writing motherhood' by Lisa Garrigues is more geared towards motherhood.
If this is your first book on writing, then you will appreciate it, else most of it has been written of in many books and places.
After reading Chitra divakaruni 's Common scents , I could smell the mango leaves at the end of it.
Three takes on a jump. How others remember your story? I never jumped off a roof but I was the other person who when asked by a person wishing to jump off a roof, I said yes as an elementary school kid. And it wasnt even into sand. Why didnt I think it would hurt? Jill christman's another essay - The Allergy Diaries.
beth kephart and her write on wednesday
music in his genes by Sara Martin.
Catherine Newman's Pretty baby in Its a Boy Women Writers Raising sons
Samuel by Susan Ito. When she refers to evacuation of her baby to the Japanese past, I didnt realise it was coming from her ethnicity. Her columns
Anne Greenwood Brown's Insights and her interview
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