Writing Your Family Memoir by Linda Joy Myers (A Teleseminar) August 21, 2008

Writing a family memoir is a wonderful way to gift your family with a legacy they will always treasure. However, family memoir writers have many questions and arrive at the task with a feeling of responsibility and even worry to the project.

Family memoir writers have questions like these:

What do I do about the stories the family does not want me to write?

How do I deal with the problem of everyone having a different memory of events; what about the family myths and downright lies–I would like to leave a truthful and favorable document.

Who decides what the final draft will be?

What about using real names vs. pseudonyms?

How do I start?

How should it be structured?

These and other questions will be discussed. Matilda Butler, owner of womensmemoirs.com and author of Rosie’s Daughters will interview Linda this month, and in September Linda will interview Matilda about writing a collective memoir.

More details are available in the website of the National Association of Memoir Writers (NAMW) at www.namw.org.

Official Website: http://www.namw.org