If you've studied anything about writing for publication, you've no doubt seen the admonition to "write what you know." What better place to do that than with your own memoirs. Publishing houses may not beat a path to your door for the rights to your story (although there have been some great memoirs to hit the shelves recently), but what a gift to yourself and your descendents for generations to come when you share who you are, what you’ve done and how you got to your present situation.
Give those future readers a treat by writing in story form rather than stream of consciousness—“I did this, then I did this, then…”—and have them turning pages wanting to know more. What was it like the night you danced the “chopstick dance” with the locals in a yurt on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia? How did you manage to get interviewed on “The Today Show” as you sat in the courtyard of Vilnius University in Lithuania?
Bring the sounds, sights and smells alive with your take on your surroundings, as you relive your adventures or the everyday life you’ve been privileged to experience.
Happy writing,
Anita Lee
“Your Life, Your Story”—writing memoirs whether or not you’ve had writing experience in the past!
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