These five memoir writing prompts can help you look beneath the surface of a recurring memory and ask what meaning, tension, question, or unfinished understanding may still be there.
Pick one memory that keeps showing up and give the prompts a try.
2. Writing the Process of Survival
Michael Caprio survived Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Then came another challenge: finding the form and language to write about survival.
In Medical Memoir: Michael Caprio Writes About the Process of Survival, you'll see how one writer shaped an overwhelming medical experience into memoir, and what that process can teach you about turning lived experience into meaningful narrative.
3. Authors and Platform Building
If you're writing a book you hope readers will eventually find, platform building is part of the work long before publication.
Next week I'm heading to San Antonio for a publicity event focused on the next stage of branding and messaging for The Alchemy of Sass. When I return, I'll be reworking the website and preparing the next round of memoir teaching.
I'm finishing with my current memoir students now, and I'll soon have more to tell you about new one-day workshops and longer-term programs.
In the meantime, please be writing.
A question for the writers here: Would you like LitFriends to include some practical information about building your author platform?
Yes or No? Answer in comments.
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