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Rosanne Ullman owns Write My Memoirs (writemymemoirs.com) to help people write and self-publish their life stories and co-owns Home Memoir (homememoir.com) to help people capture, in a coffee-table book, the love they have for their home. For 20 years, Rosanne taught grammar at a local adult education program, New Trier eXtention, and that well-received course is the basis for the Write My Memoirs Grammar and Writing Course. Rosanne has a long freelance career writing for and about various industries, particularly the professional beauty industry. Her observations about life appear frequently on various blog sites and include regular contributions to Sixty and Me (sixtyandme.com) and Boomer Cafe (boomercafe.com). Rosanne also is the author of the children’s picture book The Case of the Disappearing Kisses. She holds a Master’s degree in Journalism (MSJ) from Northwestern University’s famed Medill School of Journalism.

A Summer Reading List Includes Tasty Memoirs

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A Summer Reading List Includes Tasty Memoirs
My hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, devoted a full page of its Sunday books section of recommended summer reading to biographies and memoirs. If you like retrospecs on American icons, this is your summer.
The autobiographies the Trib recommends are:
All In: From Refugee Camp to Poker Champ, by poker’s Jerry Yang with Mark Tabb
If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won’t), by everyone’s favorite senior Betty White
Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra, by fourth wife Barbara Sinatra
Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from “The Lyons Den,??? by film critic Jeffrey Lyons
Witnesses to an extreme Century, by phistorian and psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, a memoir sequel by Alexandra Fuller
This is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx, another memoir sequel, this time by the Motley Crue bass player
The recommended biographies are:
Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast, by Andrew E. Kersten
David Bowie: Starman, by Paul Trynka
Ethan Allen: His Life and Times, by Willard Sterne Randall
Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman, by Patricia Bosworth
Reagan’s Journey: Lessons From a Remarkable Career, by Margot Morrell
Stan Musial: An American Life, by George Vecsey
Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir, by novelist Oscare Hijuelos
The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH, by one-time Dodgers player Shawn Green with Gordon McAlpine
What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years, by Ricky Riccardi
Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, by Don Van Natta, Jr.
Happy reading!

My hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, devoted a full page of its Sunday books section of recommended summer reading to biographies and memoirs. If you like retrospecs on American icons, this is your summer.

The autobiographies the Trib recommends are:

  • All In: From Refugee Camp to Poker Champ, by poker’s Jerry Yang with Mark Tabb
  • If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won’t), by everyone’s favorite senior Betty White
  • Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra, by fourth wife Barbara Sinatra
  • Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from “The Lyons Den,??? by film critic Jeffrey Lyons
  • Witnesses to an extreme Century, by historian and psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton
  • Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, a memoir sequel by Alexandra Fuller
  • This is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx, another memoir sequel, this time by the Motley Crue bass player

The recommended biographies are:

  • Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast, by Andrew E. Kersten
  • David Bowie: Starman, by Paul Trynka
  • Ethan Allen: His Life and Times, by Willard Sterne Randall
  • Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman, by Patricia Bosworth
  • Reagan’s Journey: Lessons From a Remarkable Career, by Margot Morrell
  • Stan Musial: An American Life, by George Vecsey
  • Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir, by novelist Oscare Hijuelos
  • The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH, by one-time Dodgers player Shawn Green with Gordon McAlpine
  • What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years, by Ricky Riccardi
  • Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, by Don Van Natta, Jr.

Happy reading!

Your Memoir May Be Your Best Insurance Policy

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Your Memoir May Be Your Best Insurance Policy
An overflowing river roars through your ranch, sweeping away your possessions. A twisting tornado blows into your bungalow, scattering and smashing your belongings. An earthquake rumbles beneath your two-flat until all of your worldly goods come crashing to the ground. A fire, a hurricane—it takes just one natural disaster to break your heart. Your home videos are ruined. The artifact you brought home from a trip is in a million pieces. The jewelry with sentimental value is bent beyond recognition. Your treasured photographs, diary and birthday cards are now soaking wet, ripped to shreds or missing altogether.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal gets it. Surveying his state’s flood damage the other day, he worried out loud that people could lose property—“and their memories.??? Your home insurance may cover the expense of replacing a flooded car or crushed computer, but no insurance policy in the world can guard against heartbreak from losing your memories.
What there is, however, is your memoir. Preserving your memories in a permanent way—digitally online so that you can always publish them into a book if you choose—is an insurance policy in a way, ensuring that you’ll always have your words that express your feelings about what everything has meant to you. Include photos in your memoir so that you retain them. Write from your heart about your travels and the people you love. You never know when wind, water, fire or earth may threaten to claim your memories.

An overflowing river roars through your ranch, sweeping away your possessions. A twisting tornado blows into your bungalow, scattering and smashing your belongings. An earthquake rumbles beneath your two-flat until all of your worldly goods come crashing to the ground. A fire, a hurricane—it takes just one natural disaster to break your heart. Your home videos are ruined. The artifact you brought home from a trip is in a million pieces. The jewelry with sentimental value is bent beyond recognition. Your treasured photographs, diary and birthday cards are now soaking wet, ripped to shreds or missing altogether.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal gets it. Surveying his state’s flood damage the other day, he worried out loud that people could lose property—“and their memories.??? Your home insurance may cover the expense of replacing a flooded car or crushed computer, but no insurance policy in the world can guard against heartbreak from losing your memories.

What there is, however, is your memoir. Preserving your memories in a permanent way—digitally online so that you can always publish them into a book if you choose—is an insurance policy in a way, ensuring that you’ll always have your words that express your feelings about what everything has meant to you. Include photos in your memoir so that you retain them. Write from your heart about your travels and the people you love. You never know when wind, water, fire or earth may threaten to claim your memories.

Memoir vs. Autobiography

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Memoir vs. Autobiography
The other day someone asked me to define the difference between memoir and autobiography. Here at Write My Memoirs, we use the terms interchangeably, so I had to do a little research to learn whether we’re in accordance with general usage. While I think that most people do consider the terms to be more or less synonymous, some writers and publishers make a distinction.
The best explanation of memoir vs. autobiography I found was by Laura Tretter, director of the San Juan Island Public Library. First, I needed to figure out where San Juan Island was. Did you know that it’s nowhere near San Juan, Puerto Rico? Nope, it’s part of Washington state—far north, near British Columbia, Canada. So I learned something there.
When Ms. Tretter researched the use of these two similar words, she discovered that, primarily, people who distinguish memoir from autobiography consider the former to be an account of any part of the author’s life, delivered in any order, while the latter relates all of the notable events of the author’s life, typically in chronological order. So if you’re writing only about your service in World War II or your days as a Broadway dancer, you’re crafting a memoir. If you’re starting with your birth and providing your life’s details leading to present day, you’re writing an autobiography. At Write My Memoirs, we invite you to author either one!

The other day someone asked me to define the difference between memoir and autobiography. Here at Write My Memoirs, we use the terms interchangeably, so I had to do a little research to learn whether we’re in accordance with general usage. While I think that most people do consider the terms to be more or less synonymous, some writers and publishers make a distinction.

The best explanation of memoir vs. autobiography I found was by Laura Tretter, director of the San Juan Island Public Library. First, I needed to figure out where San Juan Island was. Did you know that it’s nowhere near San Juan, Puerto Rico? Nope, it’s part of Washington state—far north, near British Columbia, Canada. So I learned something there.

When Ms. Tretter researched the use of these two similar words, she discovered that, primarily, people who distinguish memoir from autobiography consider the former to be an account of any part of the author’s life, delivered in any order, while the latter relates all of the notable events of the author’s life, typically in chronological order. So if you’re writing only about your service in World War II or your days as a Broadway dancer, you’re crafting a memoir. If you’re starting with your birth and providing your life’s details leading to present day, you’re writing an autobiography. At Write My Memoirs, we invite you to author either one!

Bin Laden’s Gone, But 9/11 Memoirs Live On

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Bin Laden’s Gone But 9/11 Memoirs Live On
You may think of history as a collection of hard facts, but much of our view of historical events is shaped by the memories of the people who lived them. As word of Bin Laden’s death spread, I thought about all of the people who might have written personal accounts of 9/11—everyone from decision makers like President George W. Bush to people who lost family members that day, first responders who survived and ordinary folks stunned by what had taken place. If you type “9/11 memoirs??? into the Google search engine, you’ll come up with about 80 pages of relevant links. Perhaps you’re including that day in your own memoirs.
When we write down how something momentous affected us, our collective memories create a narrative that future generations can access to get a feeling for the broad impact. A page at memoryarchive.org offers 200 snippets of memory inspired by 9/11. Reading one after another, you get a good idea of how people learned about what was going on that day and how they reacted.
No matter what you decide to include in your memoirs, your writing becomes part of the historical record. That’s another good reason to write and perhaps publish your life story, because then your voice contributes to the ever-changing description of the landscape of the time. Your life is unique, but your surroundings are common to many people’s stories. It’s how you manage them that makes you an interesting person.

You may think of history as a collection of hard facts, but much of our view of historical events is shaped by the memories of the people who lived them. As word of Bin Laden’s death spread, I thought about all of the people who might have written personal accounts of 9/11—everyone from decision makers like President George W. Bush to people who lost family members that day, first responders who survived and ordinary folks stunned by what had taken place. If you type “9/11 memoirs??? into the Google search engine, you’ll come up with about 80 pages of relevant links. Perhaps you’re including that day in your own memoirs.

When we write down how something momentous affected us, our collective memories create a narrative that future generations can access to get a feeling for the broad impact. A page at memoryarchive.org offers 200 snippets of memory inspired by 9/11. Reading one after another, you get a good idea of how people learned about what was going on that day and how they reacted.

No matter what you decide to include in your memoirs, your writing becomes part of the historical record. That’s another good reason to write and perhaps publish your life story, because then your voice contributes to the ever-changing description of the landscape of the time. Your life is unique, but your surroundings are common to many people’s stories. It’s how you manage them that makes you an interesting person.

Six-Word Memoirs: A Fun Fad

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Six-Word Memoirs: A Fun Fad
If you like “putting things in a nutshell,??? you’ll enjoy a trend now into its fifth year: the six-word memoir. Can you boil your life down to six words?
You can add your mini-mini-tome to the growing list at the website of the publication that launched this idea, Smith Magazine, or go to AARP Magazine, which also collects people’s six-word memoirs. Or leave it here in a comment below, and we’ll start our own collection! The concept was inspired by the master of brief writing, Ernest Hemingway who, according to legend, answered a challenged to craft a short story of only six words by writing, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.??? Several books have come out of this project, starting with Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.
Want some examples? From the Smith Magazine site: “Pregnancy: nine months of unsolicited advice.??? “Patience. Memory storage. Both maxed out.??? “We’ve considered murder but never divorce.??? “Searched for happiness, but found contentment.??? “Memoirs editable. Wish life was, too.??? Now try it yourself, WriteMyMemoirs members, right here! Then when you return to your real memoir, you’ll appreciate the freedom of rambling on as long as you choose!

If you like “putting things in a nutshell,??? you’ll enjoy a trend now into its fifth year: the six-word memoir. Can you boil your life story down to six words?

You can add your mini-mini-tome to the growing list at the website of the publication that launched this idea, Smith Magazine, or go to AARP Magazine, which also collects people’s six-word memoirs. Or leave it here in a comment below, and we’ll start our own collection! The concept was inspired by the master of brief writing, Ernest Hemingway who, according to legend, answered a challenged to craft a short story of only six words by writing, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.??? Several books have come out of this project, starting with Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.

Want some examples? From the Smith Magazine site: “Pregnancy: nine months of unsolicited advice.??? “Patience. Memory storage. Both maxed out.??? “We’ve considered murder but never divorce.??? “Searched for happiness, but found contentment.??? “Memoirs editable. Wish life was, too.??? Now try it yourself, WriteMyMemoirs members, right here! Then when you return to your real memoir, you’ll appreciate the freedom of rambling on as long as you choose!

Memoirs Lite? New Option Lets You Publish a Shorter Book

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Memoirs Lite? New Option Lets You Publish a Shorter Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.??? Whether you consider yourself a genius or not, if you can put your life story into 20 pages you’ll like our latest option here at Write My Memoirs—a special price of only $4.95 per book to publish your short book. Our books are 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches, which fits about 300-325 words per page.
A short-book idea might appeal for a variety of purposes. For one thing, while a biography typically ends with the subject’s death, an autobiography can feel as if you’re never quite finished. There is always a new adventure on your horizon, so you might want to publish a series of small books to have something tangible even as you continue to follow your life into your later years. Or maybe your youth, military service, career or retirement warrants its own title and volume. Perhaps there’s one particularly compelling or well-written story from your life you would like to have stand alone—perhaps for wider distribution. Even if you include it as a chapter in your memoir, you might also want to try to sell it separately on a website or through bookstores, or use it as a present for your grandchildren.
We also are happy to help you publish any book—even if it is not a memoir. For example, a book of poetry may be only 20 pages. Please visit our publishing page for details.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.??? Whether you consider yourself a genius or not, if you can put your life story into 20 pages you’ll like our latest option here at Write My Memoirs—a special price of only $4.95 per book to publish your short book. Our books are 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches, which fits about 300-325 words per page.

A short-book idea might appeal for a variety of purposes. For one thing, while a biography typically ends with the subject’s death, an autobiography can feel as if you’re never quite finished. There is always a new adventure on your horizon, so you might want to publish a series of small books to have something tangible even as you continue to follow your life into your later years. Or maybe your youth, military service, career or retirement warrants its own title and volume. Perhaps there’s one particularly compelling or well-written story from your life you would like to have stand alone. Even if you include it as a chapter in your memoir, you might also want to publish it separately to sell on a website or through bookstores, or use it as a gift for your grandchildren.

We also are happy to help you publish any book—even if it is not a memoir. For example, your book of poetry may be only 20 pages. Please visit our publishing page for details.

Looking for Genealogy Help With Your Memoirs?

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Looking for Genealogy Help With Your Memoirs?
If you’ve decided to write your memoirs, you might wonder, “Where do I begin???? A really good place to start is with research. If you can’t name an ancestor farther back than Grandma, perhaps you would like to trace your genealogy through a few more generations.
I had no idea there were nearly 300,000 genealogy websites, but apparently there are and they’re all listed on Cyndi’s List. If it sounds like a daunting amount of work to go through so many sites, Cyndi’s List jump-starts your search by breaking the sites down to 180+ categories. Interested in passports? You’ll have your choice of 52 internet sites. Want to track down a member of the military? Check out any of 368 sites. Are your ancestors Australian? More than 1,200 sites can point you in the right direction.
The genealogist who owns the 15-year-old site, Cyndi Howell, also has written three books about going online to explore your ancestry. In her blogs, she emphasizes that the internet is a delivery system for traditional sources, not a new source in itself. It’s time-consuming, and you will be wise to keep a file on your computer with a few notes about the sites you’ve visited. Still, it brings all the libraries into your home and lets you sift through information without lifting a book. You never know what you’ll discover about your own family that will add richness to your memoirs!

If you’ve decided to write your memoirs, you might wonder, “Where do I begin???? A really good place to start is with research. If you can’t name an ancestor farther back than Grandma, perhaps you would like to trace your genealogy through a few more generations.

I had no idea there were nearly 300,000 genealogy websites, but apparently there are and they’re all listed on Cyndi’s List. If it sounds like a daunting task to go through so many sites, Cyndi’s List jump-starts your search by breaking the sites down to 180+ categories. Interested in passports? You’ll have your choice of 52 internet sites. Want to track down a member of the military? Check out any of 368 sites. Are your ancestors Australian? More than 1,200 sites can point you in the right direction.

The genealogist who owns the 15-year-old site, Cyndi Howell, also has written three books about going online to explore your ancestry. In her blogs, she emphasizes that the internet is a delivery system for traditional sources, not a new source in itself. It’s time-consuming, and you will be wise to keep a file on your computer with a few notes about the sites you’ve visited. Still, it brings all the libraries into your home and lets you sift through information without lifting a book. You never know what you’ll discover about your own family that will add richness to your memoirs!

Writing in Another Person’s Voice

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Writing in Another Person’s Voice
It’s easy to become part of interesting discussions on social networking sites and, of course, we always invite you to ask questions or contribute thoughts on our WriteMyMemoirs page on Facebook. Over on LinkedIn recently, on a page called “Women’s Memoirs,??? a member asked for advice about writing a memoir for her deceased brother. She wanted to write it in his voice and wondered how to go about doing that.
I understand the desire to do this for someone you’ve lost, but ultimately I don’t believe it’s fair unless it was discussed at length before the person’s death. It’s one thing to be the ghostwriter—please forgive the apt term in this case—when all you’re doing is putting down on paper what the person had intended to write himself if he hadn’t run out of time or been too weak or whatever kept him from completing his memoir. But it’s another thing to take it upon yourself to write in his voice just because you think he might have liked that or for your own satisfaction.
The special nature of a memoir is that it’s so much a piece of us. We each have a voice. When that voice is silenced, I don’t believe anyone else has a right to assume it. If you want to do that, then you should call your book “fiction??? or “fictionalized history.??? Otherwise, my advice to that man’s sister is to focus her own memoir on her memories of her brother. That’s fair.

It’s easy to become part of interesting discussions on social networking sites and, of course, we always invite you to ask questions or contribute thoughts on our WriteMyMemoirs page on Facebook. Over on LinkedIn recently, on a page called “Women’s Memoirs,??? a member asked for advice about writing a memoir for her deceased brother. She wanted to write it in his voice and wondered how to go about doing that.

I understand the desire to do this for someone you’ve lost, but ultimately I don’t believe it’s fair unless it was discussed at length before the person’s death. It’s one thing to be the ghostwriter—please forgive the apt term in this case—when all you’re doing is putting down on paper what the person had intended to write himself if he hadn’t run out of time or been too weak or whatever kept him from completing his memoir. But it’s another thing to take it upon yourself to write in his voice just because you think he might have liked that or for your own satisfaction.

The special nature of a memoir is that it’s so much a piece of us. We each have a voice. When that voice is silenced, I don’t believe anyone else has a right to assume it. If you want to do that, then you should call your book “fiction??? or “fictionalized history.??? Otherwise, my advice to that man’s sister is to focus her own memoir on her memories of her brother. That’s fair.

Reading Memoirs? Speed Reading Classes Couldn’t Hurt!

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Reading Memoirs? Speed Reading Classes Couldn’t Hurt!
If you follow us on Twitter (twitter.com), you’ll see that today we suggest taking a speed reading course to help you zip through all of those memoirs you’re reading as you write your own. A lot of people think speed reading is a bunch of “malarky,??? as we used to say.
Full disclaimer: I used to teach speed reading with the company I recommend, Iris Reading (irisreading.com). I’m not currently associated with the firm, but I learned a lot by going through the training and watching how the course improved people’s reading habits. I now do read faster than I did before I became involved with it. Everyone can speed up a little or temporarily, and if you continue to practice the methods you can permanently cut your reading time significantly.
The key is to silence the little voice in your head as you read. You still see every word, but instead of hearing each word you have to let your brain recognize the words almost as you would recognize a face. Sometimes it’s fun to read slowly and really savor a book—I hope people do that with your autobiography when you complete it! But, typically, we read in order to gather information as quickly as possible. Don’t fall for any company’s claim that you can learn to read 10,000 words per minute. Iris sets realistic goals and holds affordable classes all over the country. Can’t hurt to try!

If you follow us on Twitter (twitter.com), you’ll see that today we suggest taking a speed reading course to help you zip through all of those memoirs you’re reading as you write your own. A lot of people think speed reading is a bunch of “malarky,??? as we used to say.

Full disclaimer: I used to teach speed reading with the company I recommend, Iris Reading (irisreading.com). I’m not currently associated with the firm, but I learned a lot by going through the training and watching how the course improved people’s reading habits. I now do read faster than I did before I became involved with it. Everyone can speed up a little or temporarily, and if you continue to practice the methods you can permanently cut your reading time significantly.

The key is to silence the little voice in your head as you read. You still see every word, but instead of hearing each word you have to let your brain recognize the words almost as you would recognize a face. Sometimes it’s fun to read slowly and really savor a book—I hope people do that with your autobiography when you complete it! But, typically, we read in order to gather information as quickly as possible. Don’t fall for any company’s claim that you can learn to read 10,000 words per minute. Iris sets realistic goals and holds affordable classes all over the country. Can’t hurt to try!

Keep Your WriteMyMemoirs Account Updated

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Keep Your WriteMyMemoirs Account Updated
Just a little housekeeping for our WriteMyMemoirs members: please make sure your account information is current. Our most recent email to our members resulted in some emails “bouncing??? back to us because the addresses were no longer valid. To make sure that all of our members have working email addresses, we’re asking you to click on “My Account??? on the Table of Contents page that you reach after signing in. Please check the “email??? field to make sure that your current, valid email is listed.
Validating your email address carries no obligation of any kind. When you receive email from us, you can always “unsubscribe??? to opt out of receiving future email notifications about our products and services. We just want to make sure that our membership information is accurate.
Wondering what we would have to email you about? First, we want to remind our members that they started the process of writing memoirs. Some people sign up and forget where the website is that has their work. We also want to let people know about our newer services—writing help and publishing. We’re planning to introduce some fun competitions that will provide opportunities for lucky members to have their books published for free, and we may run various promotions that will offer discounts. We will email our members whenever there’s something exciting to sh

Just a little housekeeping for our WriteMyMemoirs members: please make sure your account information is current. Our most recent email to our members resulted in some emails “bouncing??? back to us because the addresses were no longer valid. To make sure that all of our members have working email addresses, we’re asking you to click on “My Account??? on the Table of Contents page that you reach after signing in. Please check the “email??? field to make sure that your current, valid email is listed.

Validating your email address carries no obligation of any kind. When you receive email from us, you can always “unsubscribe??? to opt out of receiving future email notifications about our products and services. We just want to make sure that our membership information is accurate.

Wondering what we would have to email you about? First, we want to remind our members that they started the process of writing memoirs. Some people sign up and forget where the website is that has their work. We also want to let people know about our newer services—writing help and publishing. We’re planning to introduce some fun competitions that will provide opportunities for lucky members to have their books published for free, and we may run various promotions that will offer discounts. We will email our members whenever there’s something exciting to share!

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Then just set up a chapter and start writing your memoir. Don’t worry about rules. There are no rules to writing your memoir; there are only trends. These trends are based on techniques and features identified in current top-selling memoirs. At best, they’re the flavor of the month. If you’re capturing your life in print for your family, for your own gratification or to inspire readers, rather than aiming to set off Hollywood screenplay bidding wars, these trends don’t even apply to you. You’ll write the memoir that suits you best, and it will be timeless, not trend-driven.There are no rules, but there are four steps:

1. Theme/framework
2. Writing
3. Editing/polishing
4. Self-publishing

You’ve researched this, too, and you’ve been shocked at the price for getting help with any one of those steps, much less all four. That’s because most memoir sites promise to commercialize your work. They’ll follow a formula based on current memoir trends, because they want to convince you that they can turn your memoir into a best-seller. These sites overwhelm you with unnecessary information not to help you, the memoir author, but to address Search Engine Optimization (SEO) algorithms so they can sell more.

That’s not what we do at Write My Memoirs. Our small community of coaches, writers and editors are every bit as skilled as any you’ll find, and we charge appropriately for their expertise and the time they’ll spend helping you craft a compelling, enjoyable read. But you won’t pay an upcharge for other websites’ commercialization, the marketing that follows, and the pages of intimidating “advice.” You can sell your book if you like—we have ISBNs available for you—but our organic process of capturing your story takes a noncommercial path.

If you want help with any or all of the four steps above, choose from our services or save money by selecting one of our packages. If you’d like to talk about what’s right for you, schedule a call. One year from now, you can be holding your published memoir in your hand. And at that point, it will be a big deal!

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