November 9: How to Combine Journals—Real or Imagined—and Memoir Writing

When you learn to refer to your journals as you are memoir writing, you will produce more accurate and detailed stories. Your journal is a kind of writing laboratory, where you can experiment with techniques to record your feelings and perceptions. It’s also a great tool to get around writer’s block! So…journals and memoir writing go well together!

If you are fortunate enough to have recorded your life in a journal, you can use your entries to refresh your memory and get access to salient ...