Tag Archives: Patricia Hampl
Patricia Hampl: memoir’s excitement
The big fiction advice is “Show, don’t tell,” but this is not what memoirists are embroidering on their pillows and sleeping on. It’s instead “Show and Tell.” It’s the idea that you can’t tell unless you can show, but you … Continue reading
Filed under honesty, journalism, memoir, NOTED, technique
The reporter as artist
“What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.” —Goethe “I was signed up in the Writer’s Workshop at Iowa, so I was a poet and they didn’t let you cross over. If … Continue reading
Filed under emotion, journalism, poetry, teaching
