Memoir ideas

Writing a memoir is about more than just telling your life story. It's about writing it in a way that encompasses you in a creative way readers love.

Use these memoir topics and ideas for middle school and high school in your classroom to help your students learn how to start a memoir!

Three story structure styles used by authors of bestselling literary and commercial memoirs that sell really well.

Unsure of how to begin writing your memoirs? This article will help provide the answers; offering a clear framework guide to writing the perfect memoir.

Creative Writer Worksheet – Writing Memoirs (PDF) This week’s worksheet is for the memoirists among us – those writers whose lives are their masterpiece. Or is that every one of us, after all? “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live” – Henry David Thoreau.

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Learn the key components of your first chapters if you're getting a memoir ready for a publisher in this post from author Louisa Deasey.

Not sure what questions or life lessons you want to write on? Begin with these 63 memoir writing prompts that will give you inspiring writing ideas.

Have you wondered how to write a memoir? While you’ll use anecdotes from your own life to tell a compelling story, the real star of your memoir is your reader. The theme of your memoir is the message, and it should help the reader.

When I wrote my huge guide to book writing (Book Craft) I cut out all the nonfiction tips and strategies last minute; I’d already explored a bunch of material in my writing courses but wasn’t quite ready to share the nonfiction resources. Mainly, because, while I’m proud of the detailed 24 chapter novel outlining templates, […]