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Write Better Fiction6 Reasons Why We Love to Read (& Write) a Faux Memoir

Memoirs are a popular form of nonfiction, so popular that many novelists like to use the memoir format to write their fiction. Here are six reasons why we love to read and write the faux memoir, as well as an explanation of how this is different than just first-person narrative fiction.

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