Writing your memoir is insightful
- amrochon
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min read
FATHERless, My Father’s Memoir and Mine, has a section entitled Inventing the Actual, in which I provided fifteen suggestion for writing your memoir. Let’s concentrate on a few of them.
1. Read many memoirs. That will convince you that there are infinite ways to tell your story.
2. Call on hearing, taste, touch, smell, vision. Chapter 20’s title is Good, Like Bread. It’s a focus on senses.
3. Create a genogram. I’ve listed resources that would help. It need not be as detailed as those in FATHERless, My Father’s Memoir and Mine, but then, you may not be focusing on six generations. Visuals clarify.
4. Join a critique group or form one. Writers help writers.
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In the sadness, the losses, the confusion our whole world is in we must call upon compassion to carry us through. That's why I've written up the stories of kindness I've seen in our little community and heard first hand from others. Loving one another is the key.