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Explore the art of memoir writing, capturing life scenes and reflections to convey meaning. Learn to experiment with your story while including others. Discover famous memoirs and embark on your mini-memoir journey today!
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Writers Workshop Introduction to Memoir
Life writing • Memoir is a kind of LIFE WRITING • Life writing: the recording of selves, memories, experiences (yours or someone else’s) • many genres and practices: autobiography, biography, memoir, diaries, journals, letters, testimonies, personal essays, blogs, e-mails, and so on
What is a Memoir? • Nonfiction • A kind of autobiographical writing (writing about yourself) • Captures particular scenes of life and often a reflection on meaning (i.e., ‘so what?’) • It’s not about every single thing that ever happened to you (that’s autobiography) • There may be more room to experiment than in autobiography • More exterior than an autobiography: includes other people, events you’ve witnessed, your place in your culture
odds ‘n’ ends • degrees of accuracy/truth? • what a memoir looks/sounds like • famous memoirs: Angela’s Ashes , A Million Little Pieces, Woman Warrior, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
To do! • Select an item from writing territories list – involving some kind of life story • write a mini-memoir • Title: Quickwrite #1 • I will read excerpts of memoirs to you…