How to Begin a Memoir

Many writers agonize about just where to start alife story, where to begin a memoir. There are, of course, many places where a story can be launched.

1. The place in the story at which you begin to write is almost never the place at which readers will begin to read your story.

A writer begins someplace because beginning someplace is the way it is done. It is only much later that the writer will know where to place this initial piece of writing— at the beginning or elsewhere in the memoir.

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