You have worked long and hard to write your memoir. Memoir editing would be fine but you are ready to turn the computer off and receive the accolades you feel you deserve! You want to be finished.
Wouldn’t it be great to have “I’ve gotten my story out and that’s that with my memoir” be the same as “the story is ready to affect the reader”?
At some level, you are ready to move on, but, wait! is your memoir ready for its audience? Is what you have a penultimate draft rather than a ready-to-be-published manuscript? It may even be a very good draft but it’s probably not the finished manuscript you are hoping it is.
This is the time to engage memoir editing.
Every writer ought to engage an editor before moving a manuscript on to the public. When you think your writing is completed, you probably still need memoir editing. An editor will help you to identify any shortcomings in your memoir and help you make the decisions you must make to develop the story, its theme and its promise, to its maximum potential for all to appreciate. Memoir editing will help you assess the pacing and shaping of your story and help you tighten both.
In conclusion
The information in the posts below will help you with these tasks. After you’ve read the posts, come over to our memoir editing services pages and check out how The Memoir Network can help you to generate the best manuscript you are capable of.
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Friends and family love your memoir. They say you are an outstanding writer, but you’re not sure. Perhaps you need a manuscript review. See inside.
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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.
Be a Better Memoir Writer with Deliberate Practice
Memoir writers can achieve much alone. But, it is also true that working with a memoir professional can cut down the time it takes to produce a book of memoirs and can significantly jack up the quality.
So You Wonder How Memoir Editing Works
When I begin memoir editing with clients, I tell them that a proper editing requires three “read-throughs.” It is impossible to give a manuscript all the attention it deserves in one reading. Reading a manuscript without doing any specific editing and forming only a general impression has always seemed a good idea in theory, but […]
What Is Developmental Editing and Why You Need It for Your Self-Published Memoir
Developmental editing contributes to developing a manuscript to its full potential.They can help you with project and planning how it will be published.
Help to Write My Memoir: Here’s What a Top Editor Does for You
What a top editor does for you. People often ask, “What sort of input does an editing client receive from her/his Memoir Network editor?” The answer, of course, varies according to the client. No two receive the same response. We always individualize. You persist in asking, “Yes, yes, but what sort of manuscript input can […]
How to Cut Memoir Text
To ensure that your memoir is a tight one, it will probably be necessary to cut some of your text. Having finished my childhood memoir, French Boy / A 1950s Franco-American Childhood, of course, I have been thinking of all the things that I did not put into the memoir. Some of these omissions, I […]
Before Sending Your Manuscript To An Editor / Part 2: Use of Time
Clean up your use of time. This second post on self-editing revolves around the use of time. Proper use of time is crucial to understanding a memoir.