Five Takes for Writing with Good Grammar

Memoir writers sometimes ask, “Is writing with good grammar important?”

Yes and no. To anyone beginning to write lifestories, I would caution, “Get your story down on paper and don’t worry about “good grammar”—at least, not at first.”

1) Composing a fluent first draft that tells the storyline is more important than producing a grammatically-correct one.

Forget the curmudgeonly high-school English teacher who used to peer over your shoulders; forget your inner censor. The correct placement o...