Posts Tagged ‘how to write a story’

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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