memoir writing
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How to Hook Your Memoir Readers in the First Ten Pages
Memoirs do not fail to resonate because the life was uninteresting. They fail to resonate because readers aren’t invited to embrace a hero. That may sound harsh, but it is also instructive. Just know this. You are a well-qualified protagonist. Your life isn’t the problem. The problem is craft. We can fix this. Matt Bird,… Continue reading
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What You Can Borrow From Hemingway When Writing Your Memoir
There are great writers who fade into oblivion. Then there’s Ernest Hemingway, whose prose is so popular that there’s a writing app that bears his name. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize because he was a damn good writer. Over his lifetime, he crafted tales about courage, endurance, the relentless… Continue reading