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The Work of Writing a Memoir Can Be Hard, But You Can Succeed!

Denis Ledoux — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:10:14 +0000

No one said it would be easy to show up and do the work of writing a book! “This is hard,” you think as you look at your production. “perhaps I’m not cut out for this.” (more…)

A Firm Writing Resolution: You Will Not Regret Formulating One for 2026

Denis Ledoux — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:10:43 +0000

Resolutions can be tricky—just an exercise in fooling yourself! But they can also be a dynamic trigger. In this post, I will share a writing resolution that paid off big for me. If you have not decided on New Year’s resolutions for your writing, it is a good time to choose priorities for the […]

Telling the Past as It Probably Was!

Denis Ledoux — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:15:10 +0000

My latest book is Here to Stay / Lives in 17th-Century Canada. In this post, I want to make clear that people then lived with different paradigms. It’s the only way I can explain things. Telling the past of New France was not easy. As I was writing Here to Stay, a story of my […]

Three Pillars of Memoir Writing

Denis Ledoux — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:50:24 +0000

Writing a memoir requires a lot of time and energy—but you can do it. You can succeed in writing a memoir. Many people just like you have succeeded in doing so already. Today I am offering you my three pillars of memoir writing. I want to share a system with you for getting started […]

Surviving Childhood Abuse: A Writer’s Experience

Denise Brown — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:55:00 +0000

Congratulations to Denise Brown on the publication of her book, Transcending Darkness: A Memoir of Abuse and Grace. I recently had the opportunity to interview Denise about her experience writing her book on surviving childhood abuse. I am pleased to share her experience. To read Part 2, click here. To read Part 3, click here.—DL […]

Writing the right memoir

Denis Ledoux — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:15:34 +0000

not writing the right memoir can constrict your writing. The person who has put down one memoir a number of weeks, or months or even years ago, may not be able to pick it up again because the energy that had initially informed it is gone. The memoir has become the wrong memoir to be […]

There Can’t Be That Many Types of Memoir!

Denis Ledoux — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:10:05 +0000

There used to be one memoir type. The one kind of memoir genre was that written by famous people about the important events in history that they had taken part in. Mostly, these accounts were about how wonderful they were and how important their roles in history had been. Oftentimes, these memoirs were about excoriating […]

Monday Focus: Don’t fib or stretch the truth.

Denis Ledoux — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:02:01 +0000

How much do you really know and do you have to tell everything you know? That is the challenge of writing the truth. (more…)

Three Pillars of Starting a Memoir Right Everytime.

Denis Ledoux — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:15:58 +0000

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. […]

Another memoir finished: what was the writing process?

Denis Ledoux — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:33:57 +0000

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…)