Many, and perhaps most, people write too fast. I don’t mean that they end up with a text characterized by sloppy grammar, spelling problems and chronology issues. No, what I mean is that they push through the process of writing their stories much too quickly. They end up with only a part of the story […]
Writers can doubt their process. This is understandable as writing a memoir is a long undertaking that can—and usually does—have many discouraging moments.
I am in the very last days of the memoir writing process and polishing A Sugary Frosting / A Memoir of a Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage, the early lifestory of my deceased spouse, Martha Blowen. It’s a time to make sure I have written what I want to write and to check grammar and […]
What is the ghostwriting process? Successful ghostwriting has several components. On this page, we explain what to expect when hiring a ghostwriter at The Memoir Network. You will learn how to best work with a ghostwriter. 1. The Interview When we do all the writing, the foundation of the ghostwriting process is the interview […]
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Lesson: 14 How Learning to Swim Applies to Memoir Writing Here’s a little story about how I learned to swim. This will apply to memoir writing. Stay with me. As a youngster and then as an adolescent, I did not learn to swim. After a long while of flailing and swallowing water, I just decided […]
Lesson: 5 Writing A Memoir Is a Statement of a Personal Myth Let your personal myths enlighten you While writing a memoir taps into the writer’s personal myths, writing a memoir itself may be compared to a mythic event. The stories of Prometheus stealing fire from the Olympian gods and of Adam and Eve come […]
A big part of success is showing up and doing the work. The same is true in writing a memoir. To succeed you have to do some writing; you have to demonstrate some discipline, some nose to the grindstone. Now the writing process is not straightforward or linear and there are many unexpected twists and […]
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