Memoir Writing Tip: First You Cry

FIRST YOU CRY || This is my best caveat when someone tells me they have always wanted to write a memoir and wonders what to expect from the process. If that sounds negative, let me explain!

Many people come to me with several chapters written and edited many times over. They are good, but I know, and they know, this isn't really what they want to write. They are writing *around* their true story, procrastinating on tackling that difficult scene or action -- the reason they wanted to write in the first place.

And those stories often make us cry.  

Because we write about those times in life when something happened to us. It might have traumatized or inspired us, or both. We want to write about it to help others, or to explore it for ourselves, or both. And it bring up all the emotions.

Whatever it is, my advice is to go there first. Write that first. It will affect and inform everything else that comes before or after. 

This is not not baseball! There IS crying in memoir writing ... a n d  t h a t ' s  o k!

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