WRITING
Everything You Need to Know About Writing Memoir…You Didn’t Think You Needed to Know
How to get on your memoir writing A-game and stay there
Memoir writing, like many narrowly niched genres, can be more difficult to conquer than one may think. But are you hitting the mark on a memoir piece or are you really writing a personal essay? Are you a memoirist or are you a humorist? Does it matter?
It matters if fine-tuning your writing matters to you.
It matters if perfecting the art of memoir matters to you.
It matters if knowing the difference between an essay and a memoir matters to you.
Most of all, it matters if you want to continue to grow your skills as a storyteller. Why do I say continue to grow? Because there’s not a single writer out there in this big, bad world who doesn’t have room to grow — especially in their storytelling. Some of us are in different places but we all have room to grow.
What Is Storytelling and Why Does It Matter?
Let’s get rid of fancy high-brow collegiate terms and strip down storytelling to its beautiful simplicity. In every story you’ve heard and loved, what is there?
