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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?
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