Beyond Writing Prompts

When don't know how to start your memoir, or feel bogged down with your story, or want to write a more in-depth and interesting memoir, a writing-prompt book may help-and then it might not. What won't help you are prompts that offer suggestions like "Imagine you are abducted by a space alien and..." Hardly the stuff to get your memoir up and running-and to add to depth to your writing.In Memory List Question Book 101, you will:~ be stimulated by meaningful questions / topics / ideas that help you to reflect more deeply on your story. Everything in this book is about your memoir. ~ stimulate your recall to get your memoir written! You may need help to access its details. ~ work within a framework that will contribute to the organization of your memoir. Our questions / topics / ideas are arranged chronologically and topically. Many sections can serve as the basis of a chapter. Writing a memoir is not easy-but this book helps to make the process easier.THE MEMOIR NETWORK WRITING SERIESMemory List Question Book 101 / 100s of Not-a-Prompt Questions is book three in our writing series. •Memoir Writing 101 / 10 Steps to Crafting a Compelling Memoir is an introductory text for newbies. It offers proven tips and techniques for beginners as well as stories that will motivate you to write. You've already been writing but have let off? Memoir Writing 101 may just offer you a new lease on writing! •Don't Let Writer's Block Stop You shows you how you can get beyond stuck. Writer's block need not be lethal. Learn how you can make writer's block part of the creative process. Don't let writer's block stop you! •Write to the End / Eight Strategies to Thrive as a Writer will help you to complete your memoir or other writing project and reach the audiences your book deserves. You've done a lot of work. Don't quit now. Write to the end! •Start Your Memoir Right explores the basic questions you must ask yourself before you commit to writing and outlines tasks to get you up and running effectively. This book is a valuable orientation to the writing process. It will save you time and energy. Start your memoir right!. Download Memory List Question Book / 100s of Not-a-Prompt Questions now. The financial investment is small, and the writing rewards are great. Select the "buy" button now. YOU CAN LEARN TO WRITE FROM THE INSIDE OUTI believe in the power of telling our personal and family stories. These are our hero's journeys, and by telling them we honor ourselves and the people we have come from. An important early task for the writer is go inside and find the story that is worth telling. The story is not about "nice" words; it is about honest words, visceral words.LIFESTORIES FEED USStories have always played an important role in my life. I grew up in a three-generation home with paternal grandparents who lived upstairs. I heard tales of my extended family and their history recounted by the family storyteller, my grandmother Ledoux. These stories were a food for my soul. I could not get enough of them, and her gift to me was that she was a voluble, entertaining storyteller.I began writing as a short-story writer, drawing on family characters, settings, and stories for my fiction. In 1989, I won the Maine Fiction Award for Mountain Dance & Other Stories. My other titles include What Became of Them and Other Stories from Franco-America (1988), and Lives in Translation: An Anthology of Contemporary Franco-American Writings (which I edited in 1990). In 1992, I published (and it is still in print) Turning Memories Into Memoirs / A Handbook for Writing Lifestories; in 1996, The Photo Scribe / How to Tell the Stories Behind Your Photos; in 2009, The Consumer's Guide to Ghostwriting, in 2013, a memoir-We Were Not Spoiled. E-publication includes the books listed here in Smashwords as well as others.MAKING THE LEAP TO BECOMING A MEMOIR PROFESSIONALIt was a natural leap from my own family stories to helping others to record their stories in well-