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Every Story Needs a Believable Memoir Setting

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Writers seem to grasp the need every memoir has to have well-developed character and action, but the same is not true of memoir setting.

Writers seem to grasp that every memoir needs well-developed characters and actions, but the same is often not true when they consider memoir setting.

Too many writers omit to tell us enough of the setting of their story to make their memoir feel solid and real. It is as if we are reading about spirits who do not inhabit a tangible world.

1. Setting places your characters in a context and makes them “real.”

The memoir setting is both where and when your story occurs. [Free Membership required to read more. See below. ]

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