I really enjoyed reading the memoir. It was very entertaining and funny. Now that I actually take the time and think about it. . . It must have been difficult to write. I started thinking about how I will be starting my memoir; what will be in it, what will be the title, etc. and it all just seems actually sort of difficult. SO many things that need to be taken under consideration. Thinking about all this I can already name a few problems the authors of these memoirs probably faced. For example, where to start, where to end the memoir, how to end it, what to title it, etc. Also, what needs to be described with more detail and what doesn’t. You can’t describe every single thing too much because that could result in you losing the reader’s attention. Another problem the author could have faced was exactly how to make the memoir interesting enough for someone to want to read it.
All this makes me wonder how authors usually decide what part of their lives they want to write their memoir on. How do they decide when something is significant enough for them to actually want to write about it? What makes it significant? How do they decide what details they will and won’t include in their memoir? While writing the memoir do they usually have a theme in mind they want the reader to come across or does that usually come to them as they write/outline their memoir?
Some big hang-ups I’m worried about coming across as I write my memoir are; I’ll make it too boring and put emphasis on the wrong parts. I’m worried my memoir won’t be as interesting as I hope it will be or that I won’t remember the event good enough for me to give accurate descriptions on the things that need to be detailed. But I’m sure I’ll do fine. If someone else was able to do it then so can I.
I am glad that I am not the only person that is struggling with memoirs. I have written memoirs before, but every time I am starting a new one, it feels different and strange. I also worry if I accidentally emphasis on moments that might not be important or exciting to the readers.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way you do about writing my own memoir. It’s a hard task to think about doing because, as teenagers, we don’t have the huge library of experiences that adults do when they think about writing their memoirs. I have maybe two or three stories from my life that are interesting enough to write down. When thinking about what details I would put into my memoir, I think I would record only the ones that directly correlate to my story.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to what you said about how it is hard to know what to put in the memoir and what not to. Knowing how and where to add details can be difficult but eventually it gets easier to write the details once you get really focused on the reading.
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