Monday Focus: Structure your memoir: because your memoir is not an amoeba, it needs a backbone.
How to structure your memoir is today’s Monday Focus topic. Turn your collection of vignettes and stories into a memoir. (more…)
Monday Focus: Don’t fib or stretch the truth.
How much do you really know and do you have to tell everything you know? That is the challenge of writing the truth. (more…)
Sit in on this Virtual Memoir Tour
Today, I am urging you to sit back and enjoy this virtual memoir tour in which I read an excerpt read from my memoir French Boy/A 1950s Franco-American Childhood. Here’s some necessary background: I did not learn English until I went to grade school. My brother had preceded me in school where he had learned […]
Monday Focus: Don’t ignore the setting(s) of your story.
Today’s focus reminds you that your stories take place in some context. This is the setting of your story. There are two general sorts of settings. the physical setting that is tangible the abstract setting that consists of family, culture, and the era, etc. This setting tends to be ethereal. Some of the writers I […]
Three Pillars of Starting a Memoir Right Everytime.
DL: this post—Three Pillars of Starting a Memoir Right—introduced a YouTube video which turned out to be the most popular of all my videos. Today, I would like to share both this post and the video. If you haven’t done so already, please share the post and the video and subscribe to my YouTube channel. […]
Pacing Your Memoir Requires Planning
In almost everything you do in life or in writing, pacing ranks right up there in importance. The tortoise knew how to pace himself and won the race. The hare, on the other hand, needed to view this post before setting out on the race which he eventually lost despite the gift of speed nature […]
Monday Focus: What’s happening in your memoir?
In today’s Monday Focus, we discuss what action/plot readers of your memoir need to keep reading. What makes an action in memoir interesting? (more…)
Monday Focus: Theme is the soul of your story.
Understanding “theme” and its role in your memoir is another core task that will both simplify and clarify your message—i.e., your theme. (more…)
Another memoir finished: what was the writing process?
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. (more…)