# Laraine Herring

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Themed Issue - Ancestors, Ghosts, Listen; July 2020 (Guest Editor: W. Todd Kaneko)

This issue features work from Jacqueline Boucher, Jai Dulani, Kimberly Povloski, Steve Mueske, Linda Chavers, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Kelli Russell Agodon, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, AE Hines, Amit Majmudar, Angela Maria Spring, Summer J. Hart, Fatima Malik, and Laraine Herring. The Surrogate Reader for S…

S1 EP4: The Power of Deliberate Unfocus, Rest, & Daydreaming with Srini Pillay and Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Jeffrey's premise: "Sometimes our most important discoveries for our projects and our life happen in the margins of our attention." We live in a culture that trusts conscious attention and labor over intuition and mind-wandering. Yet those moments of contemplation and daydreaming are what set u…

Episode 17: Storyweaving

Every day, our lives tell a series of stories. Many of these stories are subconscious, and we are totally unaware of them or the consequences of living them out. By becoming conscious of the stories we tell and the stories our culture tells, we can become agents unto ourselves, to own our stories …

My Experience of the Progoff Intensive Journal Workshop

Despite its revolutionary methodology, and the unique impact it has made on so many well-known writers and artists, I fear that the Progoff Intensive Journal Workshop is no longer as well-known as it once was. After venturing to Arizona to experience it for myself, I returned a new man. In this sho…

131: How to Write About Something You Can’t Remember

Today on our show we share a story by Andrea Askowitz. Andrea’s story was written as speculative memoir during our writing retreat in Guatemala. And if you are like most people, you have never heard of speculative memoir. After you hear this episode, you will be dying to give it a try. But why did …

An Interview with Laraine Herring

Back in 2020... peak COVID times... we did this interview with author and book coach Laraine Herring. Join us as we discuss her book On Being Stuck and explore together tools to overcome writers block and the mental blocks that stop us writing.

43. Trusting Our Writing Selves featuring Gayle Brandeis

Gayle Brandeis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about losing her mother to suicide and finding a way to write about it, her work across genres, leaning into what makes us unique on the page, trusting ourselves to discover what our work wants to become, why there is no better time to write…

Grief is a Dance with Laraine Herring

Laraine Herring is a wealth of grief information, all delivered eloquently and with compassion. This episode truly is a grief primer. She covers so many aspects of grief that aren’t taught and would be so useful to learn. We’ll be listening to this episode over and over. We hope you will too. La…

Season Three Episode Seven

Topics• The Henry Beemus Book Club• Judith’s Recommended Non Fiction – New isn’t always better• Judith’s Recommended Fiction – spiritual, mystical and totally lovely•Judith’s Friends Recommend Some Good Fiction  Website/App/Book RecommendationsJudith’s Recommended Non-Fiction Everything Happens For…

Writing The Hard Stuff: Turning Difficult Subjects Into Meaningful Prose With Nicole Walker

How do you write about the most painful experiences of your life without being overwhelmed by them? How can timed writing and a braided story help you untangle your hardest stories? With Nicole Walker. In the intro, Self-Publishing Pop Up Books [Self-Publishing with ALLi]; New in KU [BookBub]; …