Looking for the Right Details

The Right Details Enhance Your Memoir

I’ve been thinking again of looking for the right details to enhance your memoir. Of course, details are crucial in the what of a memoir as well as in the who, the where, and the when. They are the facts of your memoir, but there is an expanded role for details in memoir writing. Here are two larger roles that details can serve.

1. The right details can lead to psychological insight, to a deepening of the story.

I was recently in a restaurant and I saw...