About Me — Michaela Grek
Guess what my full surname is!
I’m probably like you — I don’t jump at the opportunity to talk about myself. Part of me thinks my life is uneventful and unimportant. That I don’t have much to say about who I am or what I’ve been through. But my memory keeps proving me wrong. There are incidents worth sharing in my life that pop in my head as I dip into my past. They provide lessons and opportunities for my readers to relate to.
I’m reading a chapter from William Zinsser’s On Writing Well called Writing About Yourself: The Memoir. How convenient! As I’m reading through the lines of this chapter I’m realizing the importance of memoirs or otherwise sharing one’s own stories. They’re extremely powerful first-hand lessons and blessings. No-one else can provide a better story about my life than me. Hence it makes me the best candidate to tell it. Zinsser suggests this rule:
Make sure every component in your memoir is doing useful work. Write about yourself, by all means, with confidence and with pleasure. But see that all the details — people, places, events, anecdotes, ideas, emotions — are moving your story steadily along.
