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Resuming Writing after Pausing your Memoir
Pre-writing, development, chapter train, revisions, edits—when you understand the whole process and have it laid out in front of you like a well-marked road, it can feel like there would be no reason at all to stop you from finishing
Do you really need to outline your memoir?
Book ideas, when they live in our minds, feel beautiful, complete, and shiny. Because we can feel how connected and intricate the story and ideas are together, sometimes it feels like we should be able to start writing and follow
Writing memoir when you’ve forgotten the details
When reading a scene, often the details give the narrative an immediacy that helps us connect and visualize the story as it’s unfolding for us. However, when writing memoir, you are often relying on something that is famously fallible and
How to start your memoir when “The End” is still unfolding
When you are in the development stage of writing, one of the first major decisions you will need to make is how to bracket the book—where the narrative starts and where it ends. Memoir is not biography, so those bookends
5 Writing “Rules” that Sabatoge your Memoir
Nothing makes us more hesitant to try something than the feeling that there are rules that everyone else understands, but that we don’t know yet. It comes from fear of trying something and failing because of what we didn’t know
Anatomy of a Memoir Outline
An outline for your memoir isn’t just a collection of notes, a basic sketch or an unnecessary busy-work step before you start drafting. Neither are they formulaic cages that trap you or suck the fun out of the process. As