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Start Your Memoir Right

Start Your Memoir Right


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By starting your memoir right, you will enhance the likelihood of writing it right and of finishing it right!As a long-time writing coach, Denis Ledoux has helped many writers. START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT distills his years of coaching and teaching memoir writing skills. His expert advice on launching the memoir writing process will focus your effort and save you much time and energy.

"I remember your delightful teaching fondly. Thanks for all the help. It made such a difference!" -Mara Kirk Hart, MFA, Amazon author

WHAT YOU'LL LEARNSTART YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT is a step-by-step guide that will help you both identify compelling reasons you should write your memoir and how to begin and proceed successfully. In this easy read, you will learn many techniques for setting yourself up for success. You will learn:

- why you need to explore [and answer] why you should write a memoir.
- what your biggest challenge is likely to be-hint: it's not finding time.
- why writing a memoir, rather than an autobiography, is probably a better idea.
- what tasks you absolutely must undertake before you start to write.
- how to assess if you have enough writing supports and, if not, how to get more to start strong.
- how to mine your journal to bring depth to your memoir.

These best writing practices-and more-will power start writing your memoir.

START YOUR MEMOIR RIGHT lays out a clear writing path, where to find inspiration to begin, and explains how to learn techniques of the art of memoir writing that will propel you to success.

- Each writing step is clearly and simply presented.
- You will learn why each function in the decision-making process is important and how to implement it.
- Doing this work now will ease-and accelerate-the writing process later.
- The steps in this book will prepare you to write the best memoir you are capable of.

"...concise, yet full of good ideas and new approaches." - Joyce Putnam Eblen, Amazon author

Scroll to the top of this page and select the "buy" button. The financial investment is small, and the writing rewards are great.
THE MEMOIR NETWORK WRITING SERIESWhether 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. [Available on Amazon.]

  • How to Go Beyond Writing Prompts gets you rooted in the meaning of your stories. Gone the isolated or irrelevant stories produced by prompts.
  • Memory List Question Book: 100s of Not-a-Prompt Questions. Meaningful questions / topics / ideas that help you to reflect more deeply on your story.
  • Writing Great Memory Lists. Memory Lists are the magic bullet of memoir writing. Recall more details and dates than you had ever thought possible as you build on the Memory List Question Book.
  • Start Your Memoir Right is full of practical steps: stop asking yourself if you should write your memoir, find inspiration to begin, and learn techniques of the art of memoir writing ... you can be successful.
  • Don't Let Writer's Block Stop You shows you how writer's block need not stop you. This book teaches you to push beyond stuck.
  • Write to the End / Eight Strategies to Thrive as a Writer will help you to complete your writing projects and reach the audiences you deserve.
Whatever you do today, write bit on your memoir!
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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780983093176
  • Publisher: Soleil Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Soleil Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Series Title: Memoir Network Writing
  • Sub Title: Strategies for an Effective Writing Launch
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0983093172
  • Publisher Date: 17 Aug 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 218 gr


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