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Ronit Plank

Seattle
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Ronit Plank’s Journalist Portfolio

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Beyond the Spectacle of 'Wild Wild Country'

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What I Got Wrong About Memoir and What I Now Understand About the Genre

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By Ronit Plank
| Jane Friedman
Today’s post is by writer, teacher, and editor Ronit Plank. Before I was a memoirist, instructor and editor, I was a fiction writer with absolutely no desire whatsoever to write a memoir. Many reasons kept me away. First, I didn’t see a need to revisit the facts of my confusing and difficult childhood and preferred to mask my unresolved experiences in the fiction I wrote.
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You Won't Know Until You Try

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By Ronit Plank, Samuel Autman, Alyson Shelton, Nisha Mody
| Substack
I hope November has been good to you so far and that it continues to be. So much is at stake in the coming days and hours which is why I wanted to share this newsletter with you today. Read on for new interviews, book suggestions, and a discussion of POV/narration in memoir. Let's Talk Memoir is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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Creating when we have little left

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By Ronit Plank
| Substack
Let's Talk Memoir Welcome to the Let's Talk Memoir community! This is the place for the latest on Let's Talk Memoir podcast, upcoming workshops, memoir writing tools and encouragement, and support for memoirists at all stages of memoir writing process. No thanks
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