Start Your Memoir Right

Learn techniques of the art of memoir writing that will impel you to write well and finish your story.

De: Denis Ledoux

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

As with any project, when you start your memoir right, you're on your way to success!

START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT distills Denis Ledoux's experience of years of coaching and teaching memoir writing. His expert advice will focus your effort and save you time and energy because lays out a clear writing path. Each writing step is simply presented.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• explore [and answer] compelling reasons to write.
• master proven launch techniques.
• identify your biggest challenge—hint: it's not finding time.
• why writing a memoir, rather than an autobiography, is probably a better idea.
• what tasks you absolutely must undertake before you start to write.
• how to mine your journal to bring depth to your memoir.

WHAT READERS HAVE SAID:

• Thanks for all the help. It made such a difference! —Mara Kirk Hart, MFA, Amazon author
• …concise, yet full of good ideas and new approaches. — Joyce Putnam Eblen, Amazon author
• ... I was midway through my own memoir, yet I found many tips and suggestions that I could immediately incorporate. Mr. Ledoux's style is warm and approachable. Although I have never talked with him personally, reading this book made me feel that we were conversing by the fireplace. —JBE

Scroll to the top of this page and select the "buy" button. The financial investment is small, and the writing rewards are great.
THE MEMOIR NETWORK WRITING SERIES

Whether you are writing a memoir, creative non-fiction, or fiction, the suggestions in this book—as those in the other books in The Memoir Network Writing Series—are applicable. [Available on Amazon.]

• 21 Must-Do Memoir Writing Tasks provides a grounding for implementing writing best practices.Something for everyone—but especially for the newbie.
• How to Go Beyond Writing Prompts gets you rooted in the meaning of your stories. Gone the isolated or irrelevant stories produced by prompts.
• Memory List Question Book: 100s of Not-a-Prompt Questions. Meaningful questions / topics / ideas that help you to reflect more deeply on your story.
• Writing Great Memory Lists. Memory Lists are the magic bullet of memoir writing. Recall more details and dates than you had ever thought possible as you build on the Memory List Question Book.
• Start Your Memoir Right is full of practical steps: stop asking yourself if you should write your memoir, find inspiration to begin, and learn techniques of the art of memoir writing ... you can be successful.
• Don't Let Writer's Block Stop You shows you how writer's block need not stop you. This book teaches you to push beyond stuck.
• Write to the End / Eight Strategies to Thrive as a Writer will help you to complete your writing projects and reach the audiences you deserve.

Whatever you do today, write a bit on your memoir!

Our classic, Turning Memories Into Memoirs/A Handbook for Writing Lifestories, the trusted granddaddy among memoir-writing books, is an overview to create a really well crafted and meaningful story. Along with the above books, it is a best investment in your success.