I think that some memoir writers have trouble picking that one important time in their live that they feel is most important and that they truly value. The writer life may not be that exciting so they probably have to go back in their life and remember that special moment in their lifetime. The process of writing a memoir is probably shorter for people who have done interesting and fun things during their life and possibly longer for those people that have boring lives like me. The process is most like a thinking and decision making process that might take a while over all. I think that if a person is writing a memoir that they want people to remember then I think the process will take a long time. But if it's one of those memoirs that a writer might not really have an value or interest in it then the process will most likely be short since the writer doesn't want the memoir to be that thoughtful to themselves or to others. As of now I am potentially thinking about writing a memoir of my own. I feel like I would like to write a memoir of my own that will be memoir and a memoir that people will love and enjoy. But I am probably most worried about being able to find that one important moment in life to write about. I mean I had a few breathtaking moments in my life that I could write about but I feel like I may choose the wrong one or I may choose a moment that I am unsatisfied with. I am also worried about not writing this memoir correctly or in a way that will catch people's attention. I mean I sort of do that in general but I think that I won't be able to do it when it comes for me to write my own memoir. I think that I should probably start working on my creative writing a little bit more and start picking and choosing important things in my life. I will be fine though and this memoir will hopefully be good.
As a person with a very limited amount of exciting moments in life, I wholeheartedly agree with you and I have this problem when having to bring up a descriptive moment in my life that meant a lot to me. If I really had to write a memoir about most of my life, it would be about me eating, sleeping, and going to school. Most of it at least. I guess it would just have to take a lot of digging deep into the past, maybe even think about feelings as something to put in the memoir?
ReplyDeleteI totally understand where your coming from I mean I don't know if I have ever had an experience that has tremendously impacted my life and I am still experiencing things and I try to take away something new from experiences but as far as things that make me who I am I'm not even sure who I am yet.
ReplyDeleteSome grammatical mistakes in this essay, but really good topic. I would suggest that you give examples of memoir authors who you have read and maybe they didn't have much to write about. For example, I would try to find memoirs or autobiography that are less than 100 pages long (and try not to go for younger people). "I am Malala" is an autobiography that is 300 pages long, but written by a 19 year old. That's not what you should choose. You should choose something like (this isn't real) a 85 page memoir by 45 year old John Black as an example for this topic. I would also try to steer away from just picking moments to something like how to word it, or what moments to include.
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