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How Journaling Can Help You Write Memoir

by Amber Lea Starfire on May 28, 2011

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Journaling and Memoir Writing are not the Same Thing

Journaling is a personal, reflective practice. Memoir writing is the craft of writing your memories in a structured, meaningful way. In past articles here, I’ve written about a number of ways you can mine your journal for details, essentially using it as for research. I’ve also written about how to use your journal to develop your writing craft through setting scene, recording details, and creating lively characters on the page, to name a few.

This post, however, is about using your journal to help you in the process of writing your memories. [click to continue…]

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Setting the Scene

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 9, 2010
Journal Writing for Memoir: Setting the Scene

If one of the reasons you journal is to capture significant events and memories for future memoir writing (or if you just want to capture the memories as fully as possible), you’ll want to do more than just write about what happened. You’ll want to go beyond recording the emotional impact to describing the environment — the scene — in which an event occurs.

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