Tag Archives: story
Polio Summer
In the United States, the 1952 polio epidemic would be the worst outbreak in the nation’s history, and is credited with heightening parents’ fears of the disease and focusing public awareness on the need for a vaccine.[20] Of the 57,628 cases … Continue reading
Monday Discovery: Joe Bunting’s “How to Write a Story like Les Miserables”
Here’s a Monday Discovery for you! On his blog, The Write Practice, Joe Bunting reveals what he learned from watching the movie version of Les Miserables. He describes being moved to tears. He says: I want to write a story … Continue reading
The Sisters’ Story
Enter a room with four elderly women–all in their nineties–in various stages of infirmity and alertness. They are sisters, and all of them grew up with my mother in a small town in north Mississippi. This means they were all … Continue reading
A Post Hop
Now that the October Memoir Challenge is done, I thought it might be a good time to give you a tour of various kinds of posts at The Writerly Life. If you started following the blog during the challenge, you … Continue reading
