Post #10 – Memoir Writing, Journaling – Amber Starfire
If one of the reasons you journal is to capture significant events and memories for future memoir writing (or if you simply 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.
Think of yourself as the screenwriter of your own life. And instead of writing a fictional story, you are writing the story — the drama — of your life as it unfolds. When you eventually write that memoir, your readers will want to be anchored in the where and when the action takes place. And, believe me, it’s much easier to describe and set a scene in writing when the details are still fresh in your mind than it is later, when you are trying to recall everything from memory.
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