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 […]
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Writing A Memoir Is a Statement of a Personal Myth Lesson 5
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 […]
Bringing Discipline in Memoir Writing
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 […]
3 Stages of Writing a Memoir
A guest post Three Stages of Writing a Memoir: Own Your Truth, Find Your Voice and Tell Your Story In December 2011, I decided to take a trip to my home country, Azerbaijan. I had a property to sell and family to visit there. More importantly, I was on a mission to find my father’s […]
More memoir-writing resources at The Memoir Network.
“Free” can take you only so far. For more resources to take you deeper into memoir writing, explore these resources. (more…)
Monday Focus: Pre-writing is more important than you think.
Pre-writing is the process of gathering and ordering information before you begin to write. Here’s where to start. (more…)
A Best Memoir Writing Practice
When learning to write memoir, it can feel awkward and uncomfortable as you learn the process, just like in learning to swim. We often see people who are not comfortable swimming flail about in the water, their heads reaching up high, desperately, to catch a breath of air. They usually execute strokes too fast. This […]
Writing a Memoir Is a Big Project. It Calls For the Project Manager Function.
People jump into their memoir writing projects without giving the function of project manager much consideration. Here’s what you need to do. (more…)
A Faulty Process Is—Well—Useless
One memoir writer who had spent two or three years writing her story submitted her formatted manuscript to me for a final edit. She told me she hadn’t gotten help writing a memoir because she hadn’t wanted to be influenced. As I read her story, I struggled to find its focus. There didn’t seem to […]