Your Self-Help Book Should Not Be a Thinly Disguised Memoir

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If you're writing a memoir, and it's your very first attempt at writing (or
writing seriously for publication), odds are good that you won't yet be skillful enough
to pass muster with an agent or editor. (See
this YouTube lesson from master storyteller Ira Glass on why.)



Many people are sparked to write a memoir after they overcome great pain and adversity
in their lives, as a means of catharsis, as well as to help others going through the
same thing.



Based on writers I meet at conferen...