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We Are Your Memoir Coaching Help The Memoir Network has assembled a professional stable of coaches and editors to provide you just-in-time memoir coaching help. Denis Ledoux Founder, Editor-in-Chief Denis Ledoux is the founder, director, and editor-in-chief of The Memoir Network with its plethora of memoir coaching help, and its predecessor, The Soleil Lifestory Network, […]

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Meet the Team

Your Memoir Writing Professionals We offer you the best memoir ghostwriters you will find anywhere. We enjoy working with people and find our numerous projects to be interesting. Give us a try today. Denis Ledoux Founder, Editor-in-Chief Denis Ledoux is the founder, director, and editor-in-chief of The Memoir Network and its predecessor, The Soleil Lifestory […]

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The Irreplaceable Memoir

People are driven to express themselves. Each of us has a story and an urge to tell it. No other style is as effective as the irreplaceable memoir.

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How to Start Writing a Memoir: What’s Your Focus?

At first glance, writing memoir might appear to be easier than writing fiction. After all, it’s your life and you know the story, yes? It’s not as if you have to make anything up. Not like fiction writers who have to think the whole lot up: plot, characters, everything.

7. Interviews

Rather than interviewing others, you may assume you can depend on your memory when you write your lifestories—but memory isn’t always as reliable as you want it to be! In this lesson, you will study why to conduct an interview which people who shared the experience you are writing about and how to do so. […]

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Memoir Writers Are Masters Sculptors, Part 2

7 Techniques for Finding Your Story Structure In Part 1, we discussed how memoir writers are like sculptors. Today, I will share a few techniques I learned and used to find the story structure for my memoir, Ever Faithful to His Lead: My Journey Away From Emotional Abuse.

Can you write more than one memoir? Sue William Silverman has written three.

More Than One Memoir: a Mosaic of Self

Can I write more than one memoir? Once upon a time, people assumed that memoirs were like souls – they were distributed one per customer. If that were true (about memoirs, not souls), then three of the books I’ve published wouldn’t exist. The truth is, each of us plays many different roles in the course […]

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8 Lessons Learned on My Memoir Writer’s Journey

Memoir writing is hard work. I know because I have been writing mine for the past five years. Ever Faithful to His Lead: My Journey Away From Emotional Abuse is now in its final editing stage. My goal is to publish it through a small publisher by December 2014.I started writing vignettes about twelve years […]

"Aurore: My Franco-American Mother," by Marguerite Roy

An Extraordinary Woman in an Ordinary World

It was inevitable that I should write Aurore: My Franco-American Mother. From early childhood, I enjoyed my mother’s stories, visualizing the scenes as she talked about her family and the past. During my teen years, I thought my mother talked too much, repeating the same stories over and over again. Whenever she was on the […]