What a memoir actually is — and what it isn’t When you think of a memoir, what do you imagine? A hefty book with your entire life story in chronological order and a choice selection of photos either scattered through, or wedged in the middle? That is certainly one version. But it isn’t the only…
The real answer is that I didn’t choose the path at all — I fell into it as a result of other work I was doing. And do you know what? Initially I resisted. I mean, I’m a creative — I create my own things from my own imagination — why would I want to…
I hear it almost every time. The slight hesitation before they say it, as if they already know how it sounds. “I’m not sure my life is interesting enough.” Sometimes it comes out differently — “nothing exciting has really happened to me” or “I haven’t done anything worth writing about” — but it’s always the…