6 Words: Memoir Challenge – Exercise 1 – Beat Writer’s Block

For many years, autumn has been the time of year that I do most of my writing, and during the month of October, I am hosting a Memoir Writing Challenge: Harvest Your Past.  I have decided to throw in an extra memoir-writing challenge before October, to help you prime your writing pump. Bottom Line: The…

Describe the Land around Your Childhood Home

Your journal assignment for today is to describe the terrain or the countryside of the area around your childhood home. When I say describe, I mean just that. Provide sentences that capture how the countryside looked. Don’t just say: “I grew up 40 miles south of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Fort Smith has a population of…