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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Skwiot: My journals were crucial in my development as a writer. Not only did I record events of my life, but I also, as you suggest, wrote fictional scenes there, experimented with writing styles, penned criticism on the books I was reading, recorded my dreams and more. It was a mishmash of fact and fiction that would likely misinform and mislead any reader other than myself. My journals were a cauldron from which a writer emerged, finally.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/journals-into-memoirs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once you have written in your journal, you may desire to publish your story or you may not. Many aspiring memoir writers ask "why should I write my story?" While there are many reasons to consider, one factor to take into account is the value your story might have for other people. Consider the support  that Raab has shared with her readers, and then consider offering your own. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/healing-with-words/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started writing in a notebook right away, not because I was thinking about publishing a book, but because I knew that writing itself would be helpful for me, and I wanted a record of the experience and my thoughts about the experience. I wrote as the events unfolded, and I had no clear idea, from day to day, how these experiences would work out, whether Jeremy would recover, the extent of his recovery, the daily impact on all of us in the family, and so on. In addition, Jeremy's suffering was compounded for me by the haunting memories of what had happened to Jonathan. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/robert-waxler-interview-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of practice transferring the contents of my mind on to paper, I became a faster, more agile writer. But despite these benefits, the journals themselves were neither informative nor entertaining, and I finally grew tired of writing only for myself.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/compare-journal-memoir/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow Zlata Filopovic's diary transcended these limits. Perhaps the readability of her entries arose naturally from the war itself. Dramatic tension erupted when, frightened by explosions, her family scrambled to the basement, not knowing how long they would be there or what would be left of their world when they emerged. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/diary-war-zlata/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Today is the first day of the rest of your memoir</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to write your memoir some day, try this experiment. Think about today as an important day. What parts of your life right now, today, this month, this year, will be worth reading? This exercise can expand your relationship to memoir writing. For one thing, it will give you an incentive to keep a journal. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/today-is-the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-memoir/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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