Write Stuff: Life Writing August 28, 2010

Life Writing captures memories and transforms them into such compositions as memoirs, personal essays, auto/biographies, literary journalism, mosaics or collages, lyric essays, or life reviews. Source materials for these written productions largely include journals/diaries, letters, interviews, reflections, and plain old research. While the underlying impulse that drives life writing is often a simple desire to tell a good story, the determination to make sense of a life, an event, a relationship, or a loss can also serve as a trigger for reflection or examination.