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Silverman,
Sue William.
Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to
Memoir.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.

Encouraging Books That Might Help You When You Feel Stuck

Cameron, Julia.
How To Avoid Making Art (or Anything Else You

Enjoy).
New York: Tarcher, 2005.

———.
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the

Writing Life
. New York: Tarcher, 1998.

Dil ard, Annie.
The Writing Life
. New York: HarperPerennial, 1990.

Goldberg, Natalie.
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer

Within
. New York: Shambhala, 1986.

Lamott, Anne
. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and

Life
. New York: Anchor, 1995.

Strayed, Cheryl.
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life
from Dear Sugar
. New York: Vintage, 2012.

Valian, Virginia. “Learning to Work.” Full text of this essay

available at http://writingismydrink.com/learning-to-work/.

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About the Author

Theo Pauline Nestor
is the author of
How to Sleep Alone in a
King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over
(Crown, 2008), which was selected by
Kirkus Reviews
as a “2008 Top Pick for Reading Groups” and by Target as a “Breakout Book.” Her work has been

published in numerous places including the
New York Time
s, the Huffington Post,
Under the Sun
, and
Brain, Child
magazine. An award-winning instructor, Nestor is the instructor for the University of Washington’s Continuing & Professional Education

department’s Certificate in Memoir and a founder of theWild

Mountain Memoir Retreat. She lives in Seattle with her family

and cat. You can find her blog at WritingIsMyDrink.com.

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