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November 5, 2015

November 5 Activity: Writing for an Audience

Writing for an audience may be more important than you think.

November 5 Activity: Writing for an audience

As you write your memoir, you will just about inevitably find yourself thinking of the audience that will be reading your memoir. This consciousness can be very important to your success. Today, you will make a foray into working with the concept of writing for an audience. You will experience how a sense of audience can both freeze your writing and open it up.

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Published on November 05, 2015 03:38

November 5 Activity: Writing for an audience

Writing for an Audience may be more important than you think.

November 5 Activity: Writing for an audience

As you write your memoir, you will just about inevitably find yourself thinking of the audience that will be reading your memoir. This consciousness can be very important to your success. Today, you will make a foray into working with the concept of writing for an audience. You will experience how a sense of audience can both freeze your writing and open it up.

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November 5 Activity: November Is Memoir Writing Month!

Writing to Audience may be more important than you think.

November 5 Activity: November Is Memoir Writing Month!

As you write your memoir, you will just about inevitably find yourself thinking of the audience that will be reading your memoir. This consciousness can be very important to your success. Today, you will make a foray into working with the concept of audience. You will experience how a sense of audience can both freeze your writing and open it up.

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November 4, 2015

November 4 Activity: Don’t Trust Your Memory

November 4: Don’t trust your memory; go to the sources.

There’s not way around it: your memory—and mine—is fallible, unfortunately sometimes false, and too often flattering as it “remembers” events.

To counter this, for November is Memoir Writing Month, gather materials that will support your grasp of the past. There’s nothing like a document created at the time of an event to anchor you in reality.

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Published on November 04, 2015 03:46

November 4 Activity: November Is Memoir Writing Month!

November 4: Don’t trust your memory; go to the sources.

There’s not way around it: your memory—and mine—is fallible, unfortunately sometimes false, and too often flattering as it “remembers” events.

To counter this, for November is Memoir Writing Month, gather materials that will support your grasp of the past. There’s nothing like a document created at the time of an event to anchor you in reality.

More of this NIMWM is available with the free My Memoir Education membership, please join no...

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Published on November 04, 2015 03:46

November 3, 2015

November 3 Activity: Let Go of Having to Write Deathless Prose on Your First draft.

November 3 Activity: Let go of having to write deathless prose on your first draft.

What you are accomplishing during November is Memoir Writing Month is getting the flow of your story down in a first draft.

More of this November is Memoir Writing Month is available with the free My Memoir Education membership.Members please sign in. Not a member? Join us now!

Your rewriting will have to take place later in your second write through. This polishing stage will occur in another month of memo...

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Published on November 03, 2015 03:33

November 3 Activity: Let go of having to write deathless prose on your first draft.

November 3 Activity: Let go of having to write deathless prose on your first draft.

What you are accomplishing during November is Memoir Writing Month is getting the flow of your story down in a first draft.

More of this NIMWM Activity is available with the free My Memoir Education membership, please join now. <!–more–>

Your rewriting will have to take place later in your second write through. This polishing stage will occur in another month of memoir writing.

Remember that perfect writing is the en...

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Published on November 03, 2015 03:33

November 3 Activity: November Is Memoir Writing Month!

November 3 Activity: Let go of having to write deathless prose on your first draft.

What you are accomplishing during November is Memoir Writing Month is getting the flow of your story down in a first draft.

More of this NIMWM Activity is available with the free My Memoir Education membership, please join now. <!–more–>

Your rewriting will have to take place later in your second write through. This polishing stage will occur in another month of memoir writing.

Remember that perfect writing is the en...

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November 2, 2015

November 2 Activity: Schedule Your Writing

Get a good start on your memoir during of November Is Memoir Writing Month with my November 2 Activity.

November 2: Set a significant amount of time aside to do the writing. Schedule your writing.

You HAVE to show up for the work. Wishing you were writing or feeling bad that you’re not won’t get your memoir written. The more time you set aside the more you will write and the more likely you will be to meet your goal of writing a first draft of your memoir quickly—even in a so short a time a...

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Published on November 02, 2015 10:43

November 2 Activity: November Is Memoir Writing Month

Get a good start on your memoir during of November Is Memoir Writing Month with my November 2 Activity.

November 2: Set a significant amount of time aside to do the writing. Schedule it.

You HAVE to show up for the work. Wishing you were writing or feeling bad that you’re not won’t get your memoir written. The more time you set aside the more you will write and the more likely you will be to meet your goal of writing a first draft of your memoir quickly—even in a so short a time as the one...

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Published on November 02, 2015 10:43