Writing About Religious Beliefs in a Memoir

How To Write About Religious Beliefs Writing about religious beliefs can be a quagmire for the memoir writer. How can you write about religious beliefs without sinking your memoir? The answer that I can offer you comes down to the same old suggestion: show and don’t tell. Showing one’s religious beliefs in action or in a scene allows the reader the freedom to accept or reject the belief itself while continuing to read the memoir. Every piece of writing has a theme. The theme is the why of our writing. You and I write because, at some level, we want

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