Whatever you want to write about, the most important thing to remember is to get your butt in the chair and start your writing journey. It’s a side hustle worth doing.

Writing a mini-memoir can stimulate the recognition of experiences that have shaped your life in positive ways and help you recapture happiness. Skip to main content Mobile Navigation.

A literary coach based in Berkeley, Calif., she teaches “boot camps” on topics such as “Write Your Memoir in Six Months” and “Build Your Memoir From the Ground Up.” ...

For Flynn, who teaches creative writing at UH, memoir-writing is more a matter of paring down than of embellishing. To write fiction you have to embellish. The memoirist must select from the ...

To make matters worse, Sierra adds that, on a psychological level, writing one's memoirs “helps with emotional management and processing, becoming aware of lived experiences, understanding them ...

Memoir writing can be a way of leaving a legacy for generations and imparting wisdom from real life experiences. It can also be a tool for gaining a better understanding of one’s self.

Patti Miller is a memoirist and author of some nine books and anthologies, including “Writing True Stories.” Patti also runs workshops on how to write good memoirs in Paris, London and beyond.

When I started writing my memoir my whole metabolism changed. I'd just turned 50 and I assumed it was just age, but I didn't want to get out of bed in the morning and I had the most delicious lie ...

Her best known class is “Write Your Memoir in Six Months,” an intensive biannual program she teaches with Linda Joy Myers, president of the National Association of Memoir Writers, but they ...