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Writing with passion is remains important—and sometimes elusive. Unlike with correct grammar, you don’t always know when you’ve done it right.

As I work with memoir writing clients as a coach or editor, they frequently say to me, “Please help me to make the story more interesting.”

“Ok, we can do that,” I reply,  “if you yourself are not only interested in your story but are passionate about it.”

You cannot much fake it as a writer. You cannot write about something that is of little or no interest to you and expect for it to come across as interesting—much less full of passion.

Writing with passion requires—well—writing with passion!

How it works

Here are a few suggestions for writing with passion.

  1. Chose a topic that is compelling to you. It must be one that you clearly want to convey to a reader because it is important to you and because you feel strongly about it.
  2. Avoid writing something because you ought to. That is a sure recipe for dull. “Ought to” does not devolve from passion!
  3. Even if you feel strongly about a topic, do not preach. While you may be passionate about the topic, preaching it will turn many of your reader off.

In conclusion

Do read the posts in the category to get suggestions about how to find and sustain writing with passion. They contain a variety of ideas that will help you to zero in on what you are passionate about and they will help you to convey your passion.

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Writing with passion! How to Bring Passion into Your Story

Why does what you want to write become so difficult to do the moment you sit down to write a memoir? Where are the words you need to convey the excitement or the dread or the anticipation of your life experience? After writing a while, you are shocked to realize that what appears on the computer screen has no pizzazz! This drivel is not what you had in mind when you thought with excitement of writing your memoir. So why is writing with passion so hard sometimes? [Free Membership required to read more. See below. ]

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The Role of Passion in Your Memoir

Understanding the role of passion in your memoir will help you to access the emotional side of your writing more easily and enable you to stay longer and more deeply in the memoir conversation. Understanding will add balance between your will to write and the passion that prompted you to write in the first place.

For a long time, passion—or or even mere feeling—was not thought to be necessary for good writing. As an extreme example, recall the works of John Dryden and of Alexander Pope. Not only were these writers not passionate in their writing, but were proud to have expunge all feelings from their texts. [Free Membership required to read more. See below. ]

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Your Subject—Where Write With Passion Starts

“What to write about in a memoir?” is a basic question. The right answer—which I believe is writing with passion—will keep you writing and the wrong may lead you to believe that writing a memoir is too hard and not for you.

My answer to what to write about in a memoir is always to write about something important to you—not what you think is important to others.

Why are you writing? What is it that you hope to get from this effort of creating a memoir? You are about to devote a lot of time and energy to this task. Be sure it is for reasons that will keep you writing with passion. [Free Membership required to read more. See below. ]

“What to write about in a memoir?” is a basic question. The right answer—which I believe is writing with passion—will keep you writing and the wrong may lead you to believe that writing a memoir is too hard and not for you.

My answer to what to write about in a memoir is always to write about something important to you—not what you think is important to others.

Why are you writing? What is it that you hope to get from this effort of creating a memoir? You are about to devote a lot of time and energy to this task. Be sure it is for reasons that will keep you writing with passion. [Free Membership required to read more. See below. ]

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