10 Tips to Boost The Quality of Your Memoir

Writers ask me what they can do the most easily to write better memoir. The following are my recommendations to boost the quality of your memoir.

1. First, make a Memory List.

A Memory List is a list of every important event, influence, and relationship in your life or in any particular era. It can be hundreds of items long! Why bother with this pre-writing task? Because it’s such a handy resource when you do write. Having a Memory List to refer to will help you focus on the highlights—the...