Guest Post: Commitment Makes the Difference By Laura McHale Holland

Writing my memoir, Reversible Skirt, was a push-pull process that took place over many years. I didn't have a flash of inspiration that motivated me to sit at my desk, begin writing and press on with full confidence that I would produce a story worth reading.

Amid the rafters of my garage I have cardboard boxes of journals going back decades. I expect if I were to pull them down and leaf through their pages, I'd find many memoir beginnings discarded for one reason or another...