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Memoir Monday: Poetic License

Even before the the James Frey debacle, we saw disclaimers in memoirs that let the reader know that time was condensed or that characters’ names were changed in order to protect them or that various characters were combined. When I first started writing my memoir, a few—ah hem—years ago, I was paranoid about inaccuracies. What […]

Memoir Monday

I’m going to start blogging about the process of memoir writing, a process I have become all too familiar with these past – eh hem – “couple” of years. This week, I’ll talk about tense.

It’s a difficult decision whether to write your memoir in past or present tense. I wrote mine in past and […]