by Laura Rink | Nov 30, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
I am perpetually working on my narrator’s arc in my family memoir, Matilda’s Silence: The Search For My Armenian Family’s Story. The narrator’s arc is how the narrator changes throughout the story. The narrator’s arc is important but I’ve focused more on finding...
by Laura Rink | Oct 31, 2025 | Memoir, Writing
Over five years in, I’ve begun a major revision on my family memoir, Matilda’s Silence: The Search For My Armenian Family’s Story. In preparation, I created a Revision Roadmap Outline. The outline contains one sentence answers to each of these four questions...
by Laura Rink | Sep 26, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
I’ve been working on an essay about my tinnitus (you say təˈnīdəs, I say ˈtinədəs, we’re both correct) on and off for four years. One section was more lyric than the rest of the essay, and I struggled to find a way to return to that lyricism. The essay...
by Laura Rink | Sep 12, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Online Presence, Writing
Last month I wrote about social media and my dilemma on how to be on the various platforms. I wrote about a reality in my life. The next day I read Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter and wanted to retract my blog, which in comparison seemed like insipid drivel. HCR...
by Laura Rink | Aug 29, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Online Presence, Writing
Last November, I was out of the country when the latest exodus from Twitter took place. Many in my writing community were fluttering over to Blue Sky. I wasn’t on Twitter, but I joined Blue Sky out of a sense of solidarity. We are all in this together! It was easy and...
by Laura Rink | Jul 3, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
I wrote an essay for Big Table Press for their This Year: 2025 project, which they describe as “building a living time capsule or a conversational archive or a collection of days.” When I signed up earlier this year, the roster of writers was full and I was on the...
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