#writingtips Archives - Estelle Erasmus

#140 Growing Up in a Black-and-White World and the Truth Between the Lines

Estelle Erasmus chats with author Shannon Luders-Manuel about using personal artifacts in memoir to access emotional truth, navigating the complexities of writing about family, her work as a sensitivity reader, and practical tips for memoirists.…

#138 Making Memoir Peculiar — and Propulsive Featuring Dinty W. Moore

Estelle Erasmus chats with celebrated writer, author, and teacher Dinty W. Moore about why the peculiar often makes the most powerful material when it comes to memoir.…

#123 Writing About Trauma Using Timelines, Throughlines, and Imagery with Christie Tate

Estelle Erasmus chats with Christie Tate about how she wrote Group, and used her therapy process to help structure her memoir…

#120 Writing Days of Wonder Featuring Caroline Leavitt

Estelle Erasmus chats with bestselling author Caroline Leavitt about writing, structuring, processing, editing, and revising her latest novel, Days of Wonder, and the rigors of publishing.…

Writing and trauma coach Lisa Cooper Ellison

#111 Making Meaning While Writing Traumatic Stories as Catalysts for Change

Estelle Erasmus speaks with trauma-informed coach and writing teacher Lisa Cooper Ellison about how to navigate writing about tough topics, the surprising impact of difficult subjects on the nervous system, how to own our meltdowns and more.…