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Your Memoir’s “BIG WHY”—A Foundational Concept

Denis Ledoux — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

What is your memoir’s BIG WHY? Without a BIG WHY, your memoir will not shine. You story will be smaller than it needs to be. (more…)

Banish Fear of Revealing Too Much: Be a Bigger Presence in Your Memoir

Denis Ledoux — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000

The fear of revealing too much of ourselves in the memoir we are writing can be paralyzing. We wonder: “What will people say? How will people react to what I am revealing?” So… We hold back in our writing. We stop ourselves from personal revelation, from sharing secrets. The fear is founded—it’s not always a […]

Writing Feelings into Your Memoir

Denis Ledoux — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:42:00 +0000

How to write feelings into your memoir is a rather important topic. Recently on the Forum, David wrote about not accessing the feeling side of his memories, of writing a memoir that, if I am understanding him right, was all details and facts. Below is my response which can serve as a stand alone article, […]

Evoking Emotions in Your Readers

Paul Bates — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:36:40 +0000

You Can Evoke Emotions in Your Readers. Here’s How. Instilling your memoir with enough emotion to stir up a response from your readers is do-able. It is undeniably one of the most important results an author must set out to achieve. A memoir seeks to move a reader and without evoking emotions, a memoir cannot […]

Lightning or When Young Love Strikes

Christine Terp Madsen — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:05:51 +0000

It was the summer the city burned. The weather was dry and hot, but the real tinder was a mixture of frustration and anger, white and black, promises and demands. If I paused to consider these things, the pause was imperceptible. I stood at the edge of the pool contemplating… (more…)