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Writing memoirs

Memoir Tacking: A Sailor’s Guide to Writing Against the Wind

Author Jill Christman discusses a method of sailing to help guide writers through the difficult process of writing against the wind.

Memoir Writing Memoir as a Channel for Ancestral Healing Lina Clavijo

Writing Techniques Why I Chose to Write an Autobiographical Novel Instead of a Memoir Shivani Malik

Memoir I Am Her Memory: Working With Matrilineal Narratives in Memoir Barbara Caver

Memoir My First Editor Was My Father: Writing a Memoir With Spatial Dyslexia Amber M. Brookman

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

Memoir Writing With Immediacy in Memoir Christine Kalafus

Memoir On Finding, Losing, and Re-finding the Magic Katy Grabel

Why I Wrote Fiction Instead of Memoir—Even Though Much of It Is True Andres Schabelman

Mystery/Thriller How to Write Your Memoir as a Thriller and Your Thriller as a Memoir Art Bell

Memoir If the Coat Doesn’t Fit, Write About It Rita Lussier

Write Better Nonfiction Therapy in Writing and Liberation in Hybrid Publishing Liz Fiedorow Sjaastad

Write Better Nonfiction Writing as Architecture: Notes on Building vs. Writing Your Memoir Rebe Huntman

Write Better Nonfiction Why I Decided to Write a Memoir—And How I Did It Julie Ryan McGue

Write Better Nonfiction How Writing Mystery Novels Helped Me Write Two Nonfiction Books Gail Lukasik

Write Better Nonfiction The Web That Has a Weaver: Writing Personal and Science Narratives During Ecocollapse Eiren Caffall

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