Multi-award-winning author, book marketing and author branding strategist, social media trainer, survivor, and advocate. Need help, writers? Let's connect!
5 Memoir Writing Exercises To Help You Right Now | Rachel Thompson Author (aka BadRedhead Media ) https://buff.ly/33ngugo “Stuck in that, “Now what?” phase in writing your memoir? Let’s move you along. “Memoir is about something you know after something you’ve been through,” says Marion Roach Smith, author of The Memoir Project. Many memoir writers, once they’ve given themselves permission to write their story, get stuck after writing that terrible first draft. First drafts are encouraging. We’ve finished something, which is amazing. We deserve to celebrate! Take a bit of time off from your writing. A week, a month, whatever works for you. Write something else, blog, doodle. Eat a cookie. Big fan of cookies. Then, get back to it. What do you need to do? Faced with a wall of text, many writers end up overwhelmed with how to outline or structure this behemoth, a seemingly impossible task. Staring at the screen, we often wonder: now what? Here are several ways I’ve used in my own work, or when teaching memoir-writing workshop participants, or clients to power through this phase: 1. State Your Mission What is the main reason you’re writing this story? As I mention in my article about writing a memoir, 5 Top Tips For Writing Memoir That Work For Any Writer Struggling with how to tell your story? Read on! medium.com, readers want to know what the message is before diving in. WIIFM = What’s In It For Me? As writers are often avid readers, this concept need not be all that foreign for us. Readers have limited time and a plethora of books to read, so make it clear up front what this book is about whether that’s in the subtitle, intro, front and/or back cover, catalog page on Amazon and other retailers, social media content, website copy, etc.” Read more: https://buff.ly/33ngugo #Memoir #Writing
