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Mining Your Memories to Write Memoir

Published on November 9, 2011 By Nina Amir

Writing a memoir involves remembering bits and pieces of your life and putting them down on paper. After all, a memoir covers a portion of your life—a few months, a year, a few years—that happened previously. And sometimes this period of time lies in your distant past. It may seem like remembering the conversations, the [...]

8 Tips for Taking the Psychological Trip of Writing a Memoir

Published on November 7, 2011 By Nina Amir

Many of this year’s Write Nonfiction in November participants are writing memoirs. I don’t find this surprising, since so many people want to find meaning in the events of their lives and to share that meaning with others. Additionally, writing about our lives can prove healing, and sometimes reading about someone else’s healing journey can [...]

Plot, Structure, and Theme in Your Memoir

Published on November 3, 2010 By Nina Amir

Yesterday’s post covered how to begin writing a book. Today, we discuss one particular type of book: memoir. So many people feel they have a personal story worth telling, and often those stories do, indeed, sell well in book stores. Readers will purchase books they resonate with emotionally. Memoir offers nonfiction writers a particularly challenging [...]