Posts Tagged ‘how to write a memoir’

Structuring My Memoir…Start With the Visuals

January 4, 2025

Picture of a huge sheet of paper with story details mapped on it; also a pen, and a box of index cards of notes, and another folded sheet of paper with life timeline on it
Photo by author

How to tell the story

Aside from making order out of chaos by deciding which of life’s millions of details to include or leave out, there is the issue of how to order the book and tell the story. I am still working on that. But at least for the first draft stage, I have a rough outline to follow as I write.

Introduction & “in media res”

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Excerpts from the book entries coming soon

December 4, 2024

Just a short post here. I have been sharing thoughts about “why write a memoir,” the considerations for how to approach such a project, the fears, etc. Going forward, I will continue to share some of that work, including various ways the book could be structured and specific guidelines I wrote about my approach so it’s clear to the reader.

But I will soon also start weaving in some excepts of my life story itself. A taste of both the process and the story.

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