Archive - The Story House by Patti M Hall

Wandering to locate truth

pt. 2 What Mary Shelley continues to teach me about writing for truth's sake

21 hrs ago •

Mary and Me: Fear is the making of a good ghost story

pt 1. series about Mary Shelley and her influence on my writing life

Jul 6 •

June 2025

Dad and the making of me

mental pictures may not exist, but he made me a writer

Jun 15 •

What's in your book, isn't the real question

in or out, just write some pages! The rest is BS time wasting.

Jun 11 •

May 2025

Finding out I was a Frankenstein expert

and other lessons my memoir is teaching me

May 18 •

April 2025

Scared sh#tless IS a writing strategy

take from the me...if you aren't crapping yourself, you need to dig deeper

Apr 20 •

March 2025

busting genres has never been my thing til now

genre blending, creativity and permission to not know

Mar 30 •

absorbed in fiction, this memoirist takes a staycation

Fiction I've been loving in March

Mar 23 •

You and your reader need a book structure, but how do you choose...

when it came to choosing how to organize Loving Large...this structure idea lost out...

Mar 15 •

wondering is writing too

calling your creativity names isn't helping

Mar 13 •

Non fiction writers, you gotta think about knowledge flow—the order of the idea build

get it right for your reader, not yourself, by the last draft

Mar 10 •

Good memoir requires pain, (really?) and other things I disagree with

does making sense of of who we are require trauma to be memoir-able?

Mar 2 •

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