Sunday, October 2, 2016

This totally isn't CLICKBAIT

I think that some problems that memoir writers face include: correctness of details, and making sure their bias doesn't affect the story too much. As some of my peers have mentioned in their blog posts, it is highly unlikely that they will remember every little single detail. Most memoir writers probably go back to friends and family that they could inquire for some of the details. The other major issue that memoir writers could face is the fact that they don't want for their own opinions to alter the reality of the memoir. I understand that what they are writing is their own memoir and it is supposed to be influenced by their thoughts, but to a certain degree, it can be too much and alter the bigger picture of the story. The writer can become so consumed by their own thoughts that it exceeds the point where it's only a small opinion that helps the reader see the story through the writer's point of view. Their thoughts need to be contained to a point because otherwise they might as well be writing a fiction story instead of a memoir. Something that I wonder about the memoir writing process is, how long does it take? And I mean that more as a question of "Do memoir writers get to emotional or discouraged and take a six month break or longer, or completely give up and stop writing?" You would think that some people would tell themselves that they want the world to know their story, but then when they got to writing a very emotional part, they break down and can't bring themselves to continue. My biggest concern of writing my own memoir is that I won't have anything interesting to write about. I feel that since I'm only fourteen, and I've had a pretty normal life, that I don't have enough to go off of when writing my own memoir.

1 comment:

  1. Everyone can get away with adding a little bit to their story to make it more interesting. There is a fine line between using exaggerated details to show emotion or action and straight up lying. Having a "normal" life and nothing to write about is the perfect time to make up details or make stuff sound worse than it actually was as long as it isn't a complete lie. btw the title in proper clickbait format should be "THIS IS NOT CLICKBAIT." you have to scream at people to get their attention :)

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