When you're writing a memoir, it's easy to lose direction and feel overwhelmed by the years of stories and adventures you've experienced in your life. You can't include everything in your memoir, so which experiences tell your story? Linda Joy Meyers...

Writing a memoir can be a daunting task and making sure that it's not just a life story requires understanding the craft of writing creative nonfiction, your reader, and the market. Learn from Eleanor Vincent as she describes how to write a compelling...

Writing a memoir can be a daunting task and making sure that it's not just a life story requires understanding the craft of writing creative nonfiction, your reader, and the market. Learn from Eleanor Vincent, author of the critically acclaimed memoir...

When you're writing a memoir, it's easy to lose direction and feel overwhelmed by the years of stories and adventures you've experienced in your life. You can't include everything in your memoir, so which experiences tell your story? Linda Joy Meyers...

Some memoirs beg for wide audiences. These are destined for publication. The professionally published memoir must be a focused story with broad appeal. It will reveal a facet or narrow time frame of your life. Your themes must have universal appeal ...

For Anna Manning, writing a memoir was a cathartic process and way to explore if she was holding herself back in life. But when began to explore publishing, she realized that the book needed work. Manning solicited the help of an editor and objective...

One of the most important things to realize about memoir is that it needs to read like fiction. You need to captivate your reader so that they forget they’re reading a true story. True crime works similarly—it’s nonfiction, but the reader needs to be...

When writing a memoir for yourself, you still must examine your goals. Set aside some time to decide why you are writing. You may be trying to understand a relationship or an experience. Some try to capture the process of a private transition in life...

A memoir isn't just about sharing the facts and timeline of your life from birth to present day. To engage readers, your memoir must contain certain fiction elements such as plot, theme, conflict, resolution, and more. In this clip, several published...

For Anna Manning, writing a memoir was a cathartic process and way to explore if she was holding herself back in life. But when began to explore publishing, she realized that the book needed work. Manning solicited the help of an editor and objective...