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Writing Your Transcendent Change: Memoir With Marion Roach Smith

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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How to Structure a Memoir

The structure of a memoir should always be taking an idea from here to there. So what you want to do is consider how would I best portray my here to there via my argument? Would it work to do it in shards? Little tiny half a page each pieces. They're not essays, they're really like patches. And because I'm having a very disjointed experience with this problem, those might work. In other words, that might support the argument. Act 3 is the way I think of the three acts. Essays sometimes support the argument best. The delivery on this title is excellent. And the title itself does a great job of pulling the reader in. There's something

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