But I use the concept of memoirs in a different way. I encourage depressed or anxious patients to write what I call a “mini memoir” of no longer than one page on a regular schedule.

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What if you were limited to 650 words to write your memoir? Upon what would you focus? What part(s) of your life would you choose to emphasize? How would you articulate your values and the ...

Call it what you want; memoir, autobiography, or simply your creative nonfiction. Turns out though, it isn’t as easy as you thought it would be to write, am I right? It’s no wonder many an ...

When everything is too big, write small! Micro memoirs capture seemingly insignificant moments in a life and reveal their importance. They combine truth-telling with narrative tension and can add ...

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Even so, the line captures the very essence of the failure memoir. This is not a brutal examination of your own errors ... (something to do with never writing it, probably because of the sinister ...

Or, as Mr Johnson puts it in his memoir, “POW POW POW ... Part of the problem is the writing. Mr Johnson’s style has often been parodied, but here he seems to be pastiching himself.