Your vision is your vision. Carry this with you everywhere as you write your memoir.
Decision #11 from Sixteen Superpowers Memoir Writers Need to Have. Over sixteen posts, I help you make pacts with yourself so all will go well for you.
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11. Your vision is your vision.Â
YOUR MANTRA: You can’t be wrong about your vision.Â
You can be wrong about your craft, but that’s a solvable problem.Â
What I mean by this is: Only you have the vision. Other people have the skills to help you achieve your vision. So get clear on your vision.
And then get clear on how to get there by working with how to get it on the page.
Here is where a book coach, writing teacher, developmental editor or skilled beta reader group can be vital to the process.Â
Engage someone, or a select set of someones, in the question about what your vision is and is not.
Remember that:
Theme + technique = effect
Here, theme is the vision: I’m writing a book about grief, and it’s saying that grief is ____________.
Here, technique is how you get it on the page.
When theme and technique get married, they produce an effect. The reader feels something. That feeling produces insight.
DECISION: Hold to your vision.
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ABOUT SIXTEEN SUPERPOWERS OF MEMOIR WRITERS
It’s easy to write a memoir! All you need to do is write something with universal resonance that is true and comes from your life.
Let’s get real. To write a memoir, you need a basket of superpowers.Â
As a memoir writer with a forthcoming book (BOUNDLESS, coming December 2024 - pre-order here at Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Amazon and as a book coach/developmental editor who works with memoir writers, I’ve learned quite a lot about tapping into literary superpowers.
What’s enduring about memoir is that it is real, and it matters. A few decisions you make on the front end will determine whether it will go well.
In this series of posts, I give you 16 decisions to install at the beginning of your journey. Make these pacts with yourself, stick to them and you’ll get there!
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It’s easy to write a memoir! All you need to do is write something with universal resonance that is true and comes from your life.
Let’s get real. To write a memoir, you need a basket of superpowers.Â
As a memoir writer with a forthcoming book (BOUNDLESS, coming December 2024) and as a book coach/developmental editor who works with memoir writers, I’ve learned quite a lot about tapping into literary superpowers.
What’s enduring about memoir is that it is real, and it matters. A few decisions you make on the front end will determine whether it will go well.
In this series of posts, I give you 16 decisions to install at the beginning of your journey. Make these pacts with yourself, stick to them and you’ll get there!
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