Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on February 4, 2009.
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Of all things, a YouTube.com video about the letter “Y” triggered a memory about when my daughter was a teenager.
You can read about it at A YooHoo YaHoo.
Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 17, 2008.
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Mastering how to structure and write an essay is a valuable skill that will have a positive impact on all of your writing.
In one form or another, the essay is the basic structure of almost every form of nonfiction writing, such as editorials and opinion pieces, legal opinions, magazine articles, newspaper features, speeches, and report summaries. The principles of essay writing can also be applied to descriptive passages in fiction or entire works of nonfiction,… –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 10, 2008.
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Memoirs and family history are written as ways to revisit parts of the past and record those events as a means of self-discovery, or to preserve those memories for future generations. While a memoir is often associated with a full-length book, it’s a form of expression that can be as simple as one’s written impression about a memory or event. A scrapbook is a pictorial record that can include memoir or family history as a means to document the photographs. Whether such documentation is a lengthy passage or a simple phrase to describe a photo, this way of preserving family or other personal history is known as scrapbooking.
Anecdotes and other forms of humor, reviews, and personal essays and memoirs are ways you can personalize your writing. An understanding of these forms and how to write them can add further dimension to your skills. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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A professional writer since 1984, Pamela Rice Hahn is the author of more than 20 published books.