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Life is a Memoir: What is Fiction?

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Another post I have written for Carrot Ranch on Memoir. via Life is a Memoir: What is Fiction?

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Bicycles: Times Past

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Thank you for all the contributions to the last prompt The Biggest Change : the responses were insightful and thought provoking. I enjoyed reading and reflecting on all of them. This month’s prompt I am expecting to see differences between generations … Continue reading →

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Time in Memoir

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Originally written for Charli at Carrot Ranch

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The biggest change: Times Past

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

I can remember talking to my grandmother (pre Silent Generation) about how much the world had changed in her lifetime. She was born in 1899 in the small town of Tairo in Queensland. She had seen so many changes in … Continue reading →

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Conversation Time: Times Past

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

The prompt for this month is Conversation Time.Did you have a place that you tended to talk as a family? Perhaps the kitchen, laundry or dining room or somewhere else altogether.  I wonder if the advent of television changed how … Continue reading →

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Cooking With Mum – Childhood Experiences: Times Past

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

The prompt for this month is Childhood Cooking Experiences.Reading Robbies flash fiction I started to think about how cooking was presented to me as a child. Did your mother set you up to cook by working side by side with … Continue reading →

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Trees: Times Past

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

It may seem like a strange topic choice for a memoir examination where we are specifically looking for differences between generations and geographical locations but I wonder how much trees, or lack of them, affect how we currently view trees. … Continue reading →

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Learning to Write: Times Past

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Following a fiction piece I did for Charli over at Carrot Ranch with the prompt ‘blot’ my piece mentioned a copybook. I was surprised by the number of people who had not heard of a copy book. I asked my … Continue reading →

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January 2018: Times Past

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

I am doing a 9 month series over at Carrot Ranch on memoir and creative non-fiction. It will feature on the second Friday of each month until September.

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Skeletons in the Closet: 99 Word Flash Fiction

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

“Dad’s got skeletons in his closet.” My brother showed me an old, leather book. Inside were some blank pages and skeletons. “Dad said we can do ours.” Excited, we raced to the study where the ink lived in a little … Continue reading →

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