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One of the critical steps you can take as a writer is to find ways to share your work with others. Those others might be writers, they might be friends, or they might be family members. Don’t let your hard work sit in a drawer unread. Writing is meant to be read. We write down […]
A critical steps to take as a developing writer is to share your writing with others. Those others might be writers, they might be friends, or they might be family members.
Sometimes you make your writing public by having an in-person audience or a virtual audience. Sometimes your first audience comes in the form of blog readers.
This post is geared to the novice writer and may not apply to a more experienced memoirist.
The Develop Vivid Characters Program
- Are the characters in your memoir captivating your readers—rather than boring them?
- Are you at a loss—“Help! What can I do!”—about how to make the people in your memoir more relatable?
- Are you embarrassed by the “stick” characters you have presented? “She really was a complex person, but I don’t know how to show her that way.”
To Share Is To Grow
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Denis, this is such good advice. The first few times you share your work are so hard, and then you start to look forward to the feedback. Firemen show their work every day; so do teachers, and administrative assistants and shoe salesmen and gardeners and computer programmers. Isn’t our work worthy of being shown?
It does take courage, doesn’t it, to share writing? I get a group of friends together regularly and we share writing (and visual art). I always have a moment when I ask myself if my piece its ready. Inevitably, if a part of a memoir is not finished, it will stand out–and for that I must be grateful. Then, back to the computer to re-write.