November 4: Don’t Trust Your Memory

Don’t trust your memory when it comes to recording facts, events, and dates as you are writing your stories for your memoir.

There’s no way around it: your memory—and mine—is fallible, unfortunately sometimes false, and too often flattering as it “remembers” events.

We may not want to admit it, but our memories are not reliable.

Don’t Trust Your Memory: Go to the sources

To counter this, in today’s Action Step for November is Memoir Writing Month, I will ask you to gather materials that wi...