Thank you! I am wondering if a memoir has to be in order to be compelling. It's hard for me to explain, but I feel like I have to first explain a lot of things before getting into the story, but it would be somewhat out of order. There is still a theme, plot, things I'm overcoming, and all of those
Thanks so much Eleanor, Your message was really important for me. I am writing about or the theme for my memoir is intergenerational anxiety spanning five generations of women, not easy undertaking. My focus began with my own mother and I, as I wrote and plotted I became aware of the underlying theme in our relationship was anxiety and loss. I began to understand that the anxiety she sometimes visited upon me had in fact not arisen 'from out of the blue' so to speak' to be expressly dealt out to me it was what happened but there was more, there was a theme a story, I realised my mother was also a victim. On one level or another I have understood that we are all victims of victims, to a large extent so this realisation ought not have been such a huge leap for me, but it was. I began to further investigate and found I needed to researched into the lives of my grandmother and great grandmother...what I discovered there was enlightening, crossed oceans and continents, brought me to tears, and is now gradually bringing me to forgiveness. Anyway whilst my story arc would appear wide...in fact it is, I have discovered within it a reoccurring theme of loss and anxiety which informs my backstory my theme/platform and will, I hope, thanks to the generosity of people such as yourself, Linda J Meyers and others enable me to successfully bring this memoir to light. Louise
This was really helpful:)
Thank you very much. You made such excellent points, which I took notes on.
Thank you very much. This was helpful and I would like to know the authors name that you referred to during your webinar.