In memoir you’ve already had the pathos, the action, the plot. The question is which story you’ll tell, which window you’ll look through. What’s the frame around that story? What’s the art in the telling? What’s the discovery? I know what happened, so now what? What’s interesting about this? What’s a narrative that’s interesting to read, to write? You’re putting pieces together to see what kind of music they make. It’s like stitching together a quilt, creating order that isn’t chronological order—it’s emotional, psychological order.
