Tag: memoir
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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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60’s nostalgia: two memoirs of growing up Black
Both of these books are about growing up poor and black in the segregated south. That’s proof that what was incredibly boring and mundane while you were living it as a child can years later become fascinating in your memoir. If the reader has never experienced that side of life, it gives a window into…
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The Character Arc in a Celebrity Memoir – Sydney Sheldon’s “Other Side of Me”
I think he added the afterward precisely because he or someone sensed there was no closure. In the afterward, Sheldon said he had no more need to keep writing best sellers. And I felt that in a sense, he was finally able to put down the sword and relax. Thank God! After all the pressure,…
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Never too late. Harry Bernstein’s first Memoir at 93!
Because you’ve been alive lots of years, you can see the way events unfold across decades. This ability to see the long view adds a sense of wisdom and continuity to your perspective that younger people can only get from books – such as the one you write.
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Blubbering while performing his memoir
At the dramatic reading of Jerry Perna’s semi-autobiographical “Seven Men from Now” in West Philadelphia’s Rotunda the other night, Jerry Perna started blubbering as he was telling a story about his father’s last night on earth. The reading was filled with emotion about the author’s frustration with his father, and the pathos of losing him.…
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