~Spring sale on Give the Gift of Story guide book~
EMOTION and PASSION are the big buzz words lately. And hasn’t SEX been selling since time began? So what’s new?
Those three words, emotion, passion, and sex are battered about everywhere I turn from writers’ conferences to blogging tips and to all aspects of media and human conversation.
I‘m not quite sure why all the buzz at the moment. It’s not as though emotion, passion, and sex in writing or just plain living one’s life are new feelings, ideas, or actions, but they have landed front and center once again.
The daughters (and now sons) who are writing bio-vignettes for TellTale Souls are doing so through the passion of their souls, and emotion is alive in every sentence they put down. I you haven’t done it, you can still imagine how capturing the essence of your mother’s character in a story to keep her spirit alive, as no photograph could ever do, must come from deep within.
But you say, “I don’t have what it takes, my story won’t sizzle.” “Nonsense,” I answer. What’s more, I guarantee, once you search those hard to reach, dusty corners of the mind seeking those memories filled with passion and emotion that reside in your heart, you will burn with the desire to write a bio-vignette, which is exactly what will make your story sizzle.
Picture compliments Sonia Simone, Copyblogger
Most of us could talk endlessly or write volumes on emotion, passion, or sex – they are among the fundamentals of life. And so is, I believe, telling your story – your “Mother Memoir.” Sure, you can live without writing one and your mother survive without one written for and about her. Once she’s gone, your mother will be remembered for awhile by those who know her, and then her picture may be tossed about in the photo box or admired on the family online archive, but the essence of her character set down in a bio-vignette, written as only her daughter or son could tell it, will let her spirit thrive well beyond the photographs.
Sex is in the mix here, definitely, for The Story Woman, but on a higher plane than the searing one on parade daily in the media. Yes, okay, you know that if it weren’t for the passion and wonders of sex, there’d be no one to write a word or to be written about.
You may also know what I’m about to say, but it wasn’t so apparent to me until I began gathering “Mother Memoirs” written by men. For the first TellTale Souls book, with the mother-daughter theme, I worked mostly with women. Now gathering stories from men for the second book, using the strength of the male voice on mother, I realize that from the start, women and men go about writing in a different way, and they use emotion in a different way. However, I’m not so sure men and women use passion any differently. The sex of the voice sheds a distinctive light on the relationship men and women have with their mothers. Of course, each voice, whether female or male, is unique, but on the whole I see an elemental difference in how the two sexes make “Mother Memoir” their own.
~ Daughters and Sons Write Mother Memoir ~
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