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Writing memoirs

Active Voice vs. Passive Voice: How I Stopped Floating Through Sentences and Took the Helm in My Memoir

Award-winning author Leslie Johansen Nack breaks down the difference of active voice vs. passive voice and how they impact memoir writing.

Leslie Johansen Nack
Writing With Immediacy in MemoirChristine Kalafus
On Finding, Losing, and Re-finding the MagicKaty Grabel
Why I Wrote Fiction Instead of Memoir—Even Though Much of It Is TrueAndres Schabelman
How to Write Your Memoir as a Thriller and Your Thriller as a MemoirArt Bell
If the Coat Doesn’t Fit, Write About ItRita Lussier
Therapy in Writing and Liberation in Hybrid PublishingLiz Fiedorow Sjaastad
Writing as Architecture: Notes on Building vs. Writing Your MemoirRebe Huntman
Why I Decided to Write a Memoir—And How I Did ItJulie Ryan McGue
How Writing Mystery Novels Helped Me Write Two Nonfiction BooksGail Lukasik
The Web That Has a Weaver: Writing Personal and Science Narratives During EcocollapseEiren Caffall
Using Old Diary Entries to Piece Together a MemoirCornelia Maude Spelman
9 Things I’ve Learned Writing a MemoirCharles Bock
Writing Around the Phases of the MoonJenna Tico
What Exactly Is a “Fractured Memoir” and Why I Wrote OnePaul Rousseau
6 Tips for Writing a Book When Your Life Is Full to BurstingSally Chaffin Brooks

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