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Memoir Writing Prompts: Rediscover Your Life

by Matilda Butler on March 15, 2011

Writing Prompt LogoPost #80 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

MEMOIR WRITING PROMPT: What Happens When You Rediscover Your Life?

memoir-writing, memoir writing prompts, memoir, journalingRecently, while waiting in the Albany, Oregon station for the Cascades train to Portland, I noticed a poster for the Coast Starlight. The text jumped out at me. Rediscover the Coast Starlight.

When you write memoir, you are rediscovering your life. You come back to places, events or people and take a second look. How you perform this can impact how you tell the stories in your memoir. The first time you were so busy with life that you may not have had time to reflect or to think about consequences for you and for others. Even a well-considered choice will look different when you rediscover it in the context of writing about your life’s story in your memoir.

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