Memoir Writing: Listen to a Master Writer

Post #129 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

Memoir Writing: Listen to the Words and the Emotions of Joan Didion

As writers, we struggle with living our stories and then struggle with writing them. Neither is easy. In this beautiful video, Joan Didion reads the second chapter of her memoir Blue Nights. As you listen to her prose, you seem to join her in the struggle to make sense of her daughter’s death in a way that a writer can pose questions and then seek to answer them, not really knowing if she has the answer.

I invite you to listen and learn.

We don’t have to know all the answers to share our lives with others.

If you are interested in reading the full memoir, we’ve included two links for you. The image on the left takes you to Amazon to purchase the print copy.


























And the image to the left is a link to the Kindle version

Tagged as: memoir, memoir author Joan Didion, Memoir writing, mother-daughter story, storytelling