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Below are a few links that may be helpful when writing about memories

Barbara Gates: Author of Almost Home, a book about meditation, history, health, and place.

Bartleby - Great Books Online

Black Women in Publishing: BWIP is an employee-based trade association dedicated to increasing the presence, and supporting the efforts of African Heritage women and men in the publishing area

Blockbuster Plots:
Martha Alderman's website: are you ready to develop the plotline for your novel, memoir, or creative non-fiction?

California Writers Club, Marin Branch

Celebration of Women Writers: The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing.

The Center For Journal Therapy: A journaling site and much more.

Lissa Ann Forbes ~ The Elemental Press http://www.TheElementalPress.com

Lissa Ann Forbes, founder of The Elemental Press, author of Write from the Inside: Dig for Treasures, Discover Yourself, Leave a Legacy, creates books that are like no other ~ your own life legacy books, custom journals, and laminated bookmarks. Create them for yourself or create special gifts for the special people in your life. In addition, she writes an engaging newsletter and gives talks and leads workshops on telling your personal history. 

Garbl's Writing Resources Online

International Women's Writing Guild: Founded in 1976, the International Women's Writing Guild is a network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing.

Love Made of Heart: Teresa LeYung Ryan's site. Learn about her book, events, and philosophy of life.

Neil Fiore: Self-Leadership Seminars: Putting You in Charge of Your Life.

Pennebaker: Dr. Pennebaker's website with articles, classes, and books.

Rememory: A site for telling your story and receiving feedback from audiences all over the world.

Scribbling Women: A project of The Public Media Foundation, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. This site provides classroom resources for teaching and learning the rich tradition of American literature by women.

Scribendi: Chandra K. Clarke's editorial services - providing assistance to print and pixel publishers around the world.

Story Circle Network: ...for women with stories to tell. A non-profit organization dedicated to helping women everywhere tell their stories.

“I joined the Story Circle Network in 2000 because I believe in its mission: to encourage women everywhere to tell their stories through memoir writing, journaling, and story-sharing. I encourage you, too, to join the Story Circle Network and share your story!” -Linda

Turning Memories Into Memoirs: A wonderful link about memoir writing. Denis Ledoux wrote the forward to my book Becoming Whole.

Two Bridges Press Two Bridges Press is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The name pays tribute to our two most famous bridges: the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge. We are a collaborative group who opened in 2005 with the goal of publishing quality non-fiction and fiction, as well as select poetry. As a small, author-dedicated company, we seek unique books that can enrich, inform, and entertain. If you run a book club and would like to feature one of our titles, please let us know.

Women and Talent: The Women & Talent site has resources for enhancing creative expression.

Women Writers: From About.com with loads of links and resources from Webguide Colleen Devlin.

Women Writers Net: E-zine and guide to internet resources.

Women Writers Project: Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarships.

Women Writing Retreat: For those who read, research or write.

Writer Advice A great site for writer's resources,
book reviews, author interviews, and contests.

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“The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.” —W.H Auden