Steps to Writing a Memoir
Step 6: How did the memory change your perspective?
Step 1: Reading some great examples.
Step 5: Focus
writing in 1st person
- What lesson did you learn?
- What impact did the memory leave?
- How have you changed from this memory?
- Cynthia Rylant
- Patriccia Polacco
- Beverly Cleary
- Use pronouns like: I, me, we, and us.
- It is your memory written from your perspective.
Step 4: Take a snapshot of the memory.
Step 2: Thinking
about some of your own memories.
- Focus on the descriptions within the memory.
- Don't give the details that don't make a difference.
- Focus on the senses involved in the memory.
Step 3: Picking
the memories that
really impacted you.
- Look through pictures
- Talk to relatives
- Sort through memorabilia
- Think if the memory left a mark.
- What impact on your life did the memory leave.
- Was it a positive impact or negative?