Autobiographical Fantasy

Ten More Thoughts on Writing Memoir

Writing memoir is notoriously tricky business. Anyone who has written one can sing a song or two about the cans of worms that get opened, for better or worse. I recently finished one myself, and one of the by-products is a handful of ruminations about the process of memoir. Here, in no particular order, are ten of them:

1. Stories are Food

I’m thinking a lot about what it means to write memoir, and wondering if it is even a good idea. Everyone knows the trapped feeling of being stuck in a room with a…