Comments on: The Memoir

By: siteadmin

siteadmin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:04:06 +0000

After reading this post, I know I will look forward to reading your book. It’s so true about the subjective in memoir, and conflicts with the views of others. All the best as your work winds to a close.

By: Roads

Roads — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:03:21 +0000

That’s a great rate of progress. It takes time to work out how to treat all the tricky stuff. Which covers just about all of it, of course… Wishing you all the best with your writing.

By: TigereyeSal

TigereyeSal — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:25:33 +0000

I don’t miss the person I was either. And something about that brings me to tears. Maybe it’s missing him?

By: Abby Carter

Abby Carter — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:04:19 +0000

I ran into the same issues when writing my memoir and in some cases I found myself becoming more sympathetic to the people I was angry with as I wrote. But I guarantee that not everyone will be happy. One of the people in my book (I will not name names) was very unhappy with how I depicted them, which surprised me because I thought they were depicted in a more sympathetic way than most of the others. What I did learn though, is that to write a good memoir, you have to be as authentic as possible and you have to find those universal truths, those things that everyone can relate to even though they happened to you.

Bravo for tackling this. I look forward to reading it.

By: daisyfae

daisyfae — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:44:23 +0000

it takes a bit of bravery to do this… i feel like a coward, as i write the family history under a nom de plume, from only my viewpoint…