What's at Stake in your 3 Act Memoir?
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Three Act Memoir: What’s at Stake

In a 3 Act Memoir, the first part is your opportunity to show your readers what’s at stake.

Structure for your memoir
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Does your Memoir have Structure?

Do you have the two key components needed to structure your memoir effectively?

Apathy Cloak over deep lidded eyes
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Poem: Apathy Cloak

Throw the apathy cloak
Over deep lidded eyes

Hemingway Show the readers everything tell them nothing
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Show and Tell in Memoir

“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”― Ernest Hemingway This quote from Hemingway takes the concept to the extreme, and a…

My Writing Life
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An Introverted Writer

Boris has announced a social lock down. Now if I was an extrovert I’d be miffed. How dare the government…

Mind the Gap
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Your Memoir is the story of your Gap

Your Memoir has to show a transition. Solve the mystery of how you got from Point A to Point B.

procrastination
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Years of Contemplation (aka procrastination)

2020 is the time I stop procrastinating about my memoirs and get the first drafts written

San Francisco 1906 Earthquake aftermath
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Poem: Beneath My Skin

Beneath my skin creeps San Francisco  In the dawn of an early quake And the rising feeling of destruction Means…