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November 5, 2015
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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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...
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.
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Your rewriting will have to take place later in your second write through. This polishing stage will occur in another month of memo...
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...
<!–more–>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...
<!–more–>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...
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...
Dialog in a memoir: “So what did you say?”
Dialog is important in a memoir because it allows us to “hear” the subject, but using dialog is also fraught with problems. It can throw your memoir off.
Pitfalls of using dialog in a memoirEssentially, most writers use dialog that is too long. A memoir, of course, is a remembered story. When the writer uses lengthy dialog in a memoir, s/he stretches credulity. The reader questions whether the writer is actually making the dialog up—how can the writer who is now 60 possibly remember such l...
November 1, 2015
November 1st: November Is Memoir Writing Month Kick-off
Get a quick start on your memoir during of November Is Memoir Writing Month.
(Or jumpstart your memoir any other month!)
It’s possible to get a large part of your first draft of the memoir you have been dreaming of written in a month’s time.
Here are some activities that will facilitate the process. You can work them on per day or several at a time.
Good luck!
More of this NIMWM Activity is available with free My Memoir Education membership, please join now.
November 1: Choose a period of...
