Writing a Memoir

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What is a memoir?

• It focuses and reflects on the relationship
  between the writer and a particular person,
  place, animal, or object.
• It explains the significance of the relationship.
• It is limited to a particular phase, time period,
  place, or recurring behavior in order to develop
  the focus fully.
• It makes the subject of the memoir come alive.
• It maintains a first person point of view.

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• Memoirs from Photography
• I will Always Remember
• Memoirs from Life
• Writing in the First Person

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Journal Prompt

• Write three things that
• Make you Cry
• Make you Angry
• Make you Laugh
• Make you Afraid
• Give you Hope
• Get you Excited
• Make you Frustrated

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• Now that youve got some ideas to kick around,
  its time to start making choices.

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• In order to take your draft to the next level,
  its important to see and hear it from new
  perspectives. Its time to see it through new
  eyes!

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• Revision means finding out whats working and
  whats not working in a memoir. Discovering
  whats working is usually the easiest part of the
  revision process. However, throwing out whats
  not working takes great strength.
• 10 Ways to Revise a Memoir

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• Dot your i's, cross your t's. Fine-tune your
  memoir by making sure all the nitty-gritty stuff
  is in order. While the following lessons on
  grammar and punctuation may seem obvious to some,
  serious writers take the mechanics of writing
  seriously!

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• Publish your work, make it public, and let others
  enjoy what youve created! Scholastic Art
  Writing Award-winner Olivia Murphy talks about
  the rewards that come from taking the risk of
  submitting a work for publication, "Getting
  published for the first time is... almost
  indescribable. Knowing that someone out there,
  anyone at all, wants to read your inner musings
  its beyond happiness." Getting published can
  also help you with college and scholarship
  applications.