http://booksbywomen.org/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-memoir-or-two/ Fri, 27 May 2016 01:16:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 http://booksbywomen.org/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-memoir-or-two/#comment-47629 Fri, 27 May 2016 01:16:40 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14383#comment-47629 I have written five memoirs and I wrote them to inspire and motivate others. I too had a battle with cancer, and I also had several travel and other experiences to share.
My memoirs are as follows:
My Life as a Banker – A life worth Living.
Retirement is Fun – A new Chapter
I am Cancer Free – A Memoir
Travel Memoirs with Pictures
Your Time is Now – A time to be born and a time to die
The Five-star reviews they are receiving tell me that they were worth writing.

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-memoir-or-two/#comment-47478 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:03:37 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14383#comment-47478 I like the poetry in the ways you express your insights. Thanks for getting me thinking about who would read my story.
best,
Carol

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-memoir-or-two/#comment-47061 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:51:42 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14383#comment-47061 I just a very long, quite personal blog piece out of vengeance. I told myself it was other things. I even disguised it as a piece about trying to help someone with many helpful facts about injustice in the criminal justice system but I’m angry. It was the last blog piece I finished so to find your comments today was interesting, to say the least. I have enjoyed reading a little bit from this site this morning and am glad to have found it:) — LC

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-memoir-or-two/#comment-47022 Fri, 25 Dec 2015 22:49:38 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14383#comment-47022 I wrote a memoir of my childhood. It wasn’t something I planned to do but it was done at the request of someone who is collecting information for future generations.
“Oh, that will be easy for you,” I was told. It wasn’t. Writing it was a very disturbing experience.

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-memoir-or-two/#comment-46969 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 06:03:14 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14383#comment-46969 […] thought about writing a memoir (really, who’s life is more blah than my own?), but this is a good article which makes me think about doing so more […]

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-memoir-or-two/#comment-46910 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:21:55 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14383#comment-46910 As a memoir writer, I loved this line: ” A desire to profoundly recreate a meaningful experience and to apply the techniques of literature to a life moment or phase– that is the foundation of the kind of nonfiction writing I do and aspire to get better at doing.” Yes. This. Thank you for this insightful piece.

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