Element of fiction for memoir writing: The
Your reader is reading your book because the title draws them in. You provide your reader with a powerful emotional experience and great facts as the story develops. If you’re writing a romance, you...
View ArticleOrganizing Your Book
Together the last two days with author to frame her book. She has years of great material but it needs to be organized. We started with theme of book, went to deciding on a working title, and now are...
View ArticleStarting to Outline
I am quite right-brained and so it’s hard for me to outline my writing. I can do it best by talking to someone and then following the dots of our conversation. Luckily, I like to conclude or finish...
View ArticleMemoir Coaching
I’m finding that coaching memoir writing is as individual as the story. Some writers over write and the details tend slow the story and make it sag a bit. Others don’t have enough detail and the...
View ArticleSteps to Beginnng a Memoir/Motivation
Before you begin your memoir, make sure you know why you are writing it. Write a letter to a young person you love in your life and tell her/him what it is you learned most by living your years. What...
View ArticleNew Writer Tips for Memoir
You want to be a writer. It is best then to have a finished and edited piece of work. For you, perhaps, you’ll write a memoir that inspires people to do the best they can. Following your own lessons...
View ArticleLoose Endings in Memoir
In life we often have loose ends in our story. Nothing is really resolved. Things go on anyway. People come in and out of our life and we don’t do much to hold them because we are distracted or don’t...
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