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Writing a Memoir Penetrates the Fog of Memory
As a slow, methodical memoir writer, I find incidents buried under years of forgetting. Like an archeologist, I extricate them from the rubble of details and wonder what value each artifact might offer. I place them into the context of the book of my life, where they acquire deeper meaning.
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This Memoir Teaches How To Grow up with Books
She is not content to mindlessly accept what she’s been told by her elders. Nor does she mindlessly surrender to the tribal rituals of her schoolmates. She needs to find the truth for herself. Her memoir is about her process of deeply questioning her world, and the mistakes and lessons she learns along the way.…
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10 More Brief Book Reviews for Memoir Readers and Writers
Here are ten more of the memoirs I have read in my research to learn about people and their stories.
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Annotated List of Memoirs
This is a list of the memoirs I’ve read which have provided the insights and experience I write about in the MemoryWritersNetwork essays. They include a variety of styles, life situations, and periods. I have added a brief note with each. This list is in no particular order.
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Rediscovering why I read books throughout my lifetime
Books have always played an important role in my life, influencing, informing, and entertaining. Now I want to pass forward to others the benefits I have received. One of the steps of offering my thoughts to “the world” is to visualize who might be on the receiving end. Communication does, after all, require a speaker…
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Showing ideas is harder than telling them
by Jerry Waxler I’m a person who admires ideas, so when I try to talk about my life, I want to talk about ideas. And yet, storytelling is largely about action. How do I turn my predilection for ideas into a story? That’s why I’ve developed a method to gather together scenes for a memoir,…
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