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Should I Write My Life Story As An Autobiography or Memoir?

April 1, 2022

Putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) is the first step to telling your life story. But fairly early on in the process, you will need to pause to consider what kind of book you’re writing. Should you write your life story as an autobiography, a memoir, or another nonfiction sub-genre? The purpose, frameworks, audience, and marketing options differ dramatically from one sub-genre to the next, so you’ll want to get clear on how you’ll craft your story if you wish to meet your readers in the ways you intend.

Is My Story Memoir Worthy?

November 1, 2021

Writers question all the time whether their stories are worthy of memoir. If you know that telling your story will be meaningful to you, give you a valuable chance to examine your life with inquiry, and show others how you transformed to give them as much opportunity to transform, too, then you know you have a memoir worth telling.

Protecting the Innocent: How to Use Disclaimers in Memoir

October 15, 2021

Modern memoir writers issue disclaimers in their books to indicate how they’ve dealt with aspects of the genre and protected the innocent (or the not-so-innocent) by managing their subjects’ privacy. What the memoir disclaimer covers and how it’s written can alleviate the memoirist — to a degree — and enable them to write their story as it needs to be told.

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Should I Write My Life Story As An Autobiography or Memoir?

Is My Story Memoir Worthy?

Protecting the Innocent: How to Use Disclaimers in Memoir

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