Memoir writing

Looking for memoir writing advice? Check out these do's and don'ts for struggling memoir writers.

Learn the key components of your first chapters if you're getting a memoir ready for a publisher in this post from author Louisa Deasey.

Editor and author Kelly Notaras shares 5 secrets for writing a strong and solid memoir outline that will hook readers and get you results!

Writing a memoir based on your own experience requires a good overarching story, but in order to make an impression on the reader from page one, it’s important to craft an especially strong opening. When you write a memoir, begin with a dramatic hook that makes the reader want more. If you can hold the reader’s attention from the top, they’ll stick with you through the whole book.

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Creative Writer Worksheet – Writing Memoirs (PDF) This week’s worksheet is for the memoirists among us – those writers whose lives are their masterpiece. Or is that every one of us, after all? “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live” – Henry David Thoreau.

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How to outline your memoir using a simple 3 step process. Make sure you write a memoir outline before you start drafting the manuscript!

Want to write memoir? Here's a secret writing teacher Marion Roach Smith wants you to know: memoir is not about what you did. It's about what you did with it.

How to write memoir depends on how you want to represent true life events. Memoirs, like fiction, need hooks; immersive showing. Learn more.