Post #50 – Women’s Memoirs, Book Raves – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
When is a memoir a memoir? When is an autobiography an autobiography? How can you tell the difference? This week’s Book Rave gives us an opportunity to consider these questions, hopefully in a way that provides a light to guide you along the journey of discovering your life story through writing.
Before exploring the memoir versus autobiography aspect of The Dr. Erica Miller Story: From Trauma to Triumph, let’s look at the opening to her book. For almost two years, we’ve interviewed authors, blogged on Story Circle Network (SCN), and taught classes about effective ways to hook your readers at the very beginning. During that time, we’ve written 17 blogs for SCN and the most recent one, called The End of Beginnings, provides easy links to the 10 short focused interviews with memoir authors and eight long interviews that we’ve made available on our website. We’ve even created a five-minute video about openings based on the sage advice of William Zinsser in his best-selling book, On Writing Well. [click to continue…]
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