Start Your Memoir Right: Strategies for an Effective Writing Launch (Books for Memoir Writers) - Softcover

Ledoux, Denis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983093172 ISBN 13: 9780983093176

Publisher: Soleil Press, 2016

Synopsis

START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT / Stop asking yourself if you should write your memoir, find inspiration to begin, and learn techniques of the art of memoir writing that will impel you to succeed. To start writing your memoir with a bang, explore—before you invest too much time and energy in beginning to write a memoir—if this idea of yours to compose a memoir is a right choice or a misfire. You answer can both save you grief if it is a misfire and set you on a strong start if it is a right choice. As a long-time writing coach, Denis Ledoux has helped many writers grapple with this question. START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT is a writing guide that distillates his years of coaching and teaching memoir writing skills. His expert advice on launching the memoir writing process will focus your inquiry and save you much time and energy. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT is a step-by-step guide that will help you both decide whether or not you should write a memoir and with what to do with a positive answer. You will learn many techniques for setting yourself up for success. You will learn: ·why you need an answer to why you should—or should not—write a memoir. ·what your biggest challenge is likely to be—hint: it's not finding time. ·why writing an autobiography, rather than a memoir, is probably not a good idea. ·what tasks you absolutely must do before you start to write. ·how to assess if you have enough writing supports and, if not, how to get enough. ·how to mine your journal to bring depth to your memoir. These—and more—best writing practices will power start you to write your memoir. START YOUR MEMOIR Right lays out a clear writing path as to why you should or should not write your memoir, where to find inspiration to begin, and explains how to learn techniques of the art of memoir writing that will impel you to succeed. ·Each step for assessing whether you should or should not be writing a memoir is clearly and simply presented. ·You will learn why each step in the decision-making process is important in itself and how to implement it. ·Doing this work now will ease the writing process later. ·The steps in this book will prepare you to write the best memoir you are capable of—or not write, if that is what you should do. Even if you were to decide not to write a memoir, the modest purchase price for this book will be a great investment. Think of the time and energy you will have saved! ...concise, yet full of good ideas and new approaches. — Joyce Putnam Eblen THE MEMOIR NETWORK WRITING SERIES Whether you are writing a memoir, creative non-fiction, or fiction, the suggestions in this book—as those in the other books in the Memoir Network Writing Series—are applicable. Our Don't Let Writer's Block Stop You shows you how you can let writer's block teach you how to push beyond stuck. Our Write to the End / Eight Strategies to Thrive as a Writerwlll help you to complete your writing projects and reach the audiences you deserve. Other how to write titles are forthcoming. Download START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT now. The financial investment is small, and the writing rewards are great.

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About the Author

With over 60,000 hard-copy books currently in distribution--and many more in e-version, author and educator Denis Ledoux, M.A. Ed., has helped tens of thousands of writers and memoir professionals since 1988. His book Turning Memories Into Memoirs / A Handbook for Writing Lifestories, based on years of teaching and coaching, is known as a portable workshop. Mr. Ledoux's work has been cited in Time Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist and other like publications. Denis Ledoux has won a Maine Fiction Award and two Maine Individual Writing Fellowships. In 1996, he was named Personal Historian of the Year by the Association of Personal Historians. He continues to provide ghostwriting, editing and memoir writing services. His website is: TheMemoirNetwork.com - the premier online source for memoir writing tools and services. Follow him on Twitter: @denisledoux Follow him on Facebook: www.facebook.com/MemoirNetwork Follow him on Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/100340386191171175961/+Thememoirnetwork/posts Follow him on Linkedin:www.linkedin.com/pub/denis-ledoux/10/7a8/91a

Edition details

• Publisher: Soleil Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0983093172
• ISBN 13: 9780983093176
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 106