Fiction and Non-fiction: Spinning Facts Into Gold When I began writing my first memoir I was under the impression that other people would find my story spellbinding—woman begins dating again after two divorces, discovers that dating at 60 is not like dating at 18. I was wrong. My first critics, though kind, were bored. Elmore Leonard’s writing advice, “Just cut out theContinue reading “Fiction and Non-fiction: Spinning Facts Into Gold”
How To Write A Family Memoir Anyone interested in writing a family memoir would be well advised to follow Cherington’s progress in writing the book, as she allows the reader to do.
MEMOIR WORKSHOP: What's a Memoir? A common trap for memoirists is to replace what really happened with what they wish had happened, or what was the right thing to do.