Are you writing a memoir or thinking about it? What will yours be about? Drop a comment below and check out this post for more tips (including some examples): self-publishingschool.com/how-to-write-a-memoir/
I have been writing my memoir over the last few years. I really want to get back into it so I tuned into your channel. I am 65 and the main message I want to pass on is that we are all worthy of love and have talents that we need to appreciate even if others dont. You are very wise for a person of your age. I wish I had been like you at your age but was coming to terms with a traumatic childhood. Thank you so much for this video. I will now get down to my writing.
holy synchronicity, batman. I am writing a memoir about how I learned to create my own reality and other secrets I learned along the way. amazing stuff. I've entered the realm of the miraculous. anyway, thanks for the tips. good stuff. namaste.
Thank you so much , girl . I am dyslexic and am in college. I have an essay due tonight . I can’t thank you enough , because it makes it so much easier to write . ✍️ 💗💖🥰🥺🥹😘
I wrote a memoir that covered just a couple of years out of my life as a young girl. It was very painful to dig up this traumatic time in my life. I had to relive it and speak, showing my story in my voice as a child so my audience could feel my fear and pain. Every Sparrow that Falls by Rita Lee. I bled my heart out on paper in this story.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing your experience while writing. I began writing my memoir which consists of childhood trauma/abuse which caused me to suffer from mental illness in my alone time. As I wrote one of the chapters I cried while relieving the abuse. I applaud you for completing your task
I plan on writing a memoir about my childhood abuse, trauma and survival after a date with someone who later becomes a convicted kidnapper, rapist and murderer. My biggest problem is I feel very unrelatable to my target audience. My goal would be to provide insight to traumatized people, and showing gradual growth and the presence of resilience in the face of monsters but I’m not sure it would be an enjoyable read that people would want to participate in because it’s not pleasant, it’s very very unpleasant.
best advise ive had is... write! just start writing and the message will be revealed through you re-living your testimony but I understand your apprehension... i think you just need to focus on the message while you're on the gritty parts but don't hold back! Best of luck to you in your journey... I'm past chapter one and just getting started with the uglies!
Thanks for posting this video! I've been struggling trying to write a memoir for college and I wish the professor would of included your video for direction for his students. Thanks again!
Thank you for making a great and easy to follow guide! This was a great video to help me begin outlining my idea for my own memoir, as a healing process. Thanks!
You’re welcome! We’re having a 3-day event in two weeks with many bestselling authors. Tickets at $47 and prices go up tomorrow. If you’re interested in learning more from him: AuthorAdvantageLive.com Discount link here: selfpublishing.com/vseghetto-AAL
I haven't even watched the full video yet but I just love her the way she talks and explains. Who is she? Is she an agent, editor, publisher or something?
Thanks for this informative video... I am writing a book about raising my granddaughter with a method which help her to become successful young adult, inspite of challenges.
It’s hard to find any information he says how to ride it but how do you put it together that’s where I’m stumped at this I don’t know what to put where or how to do it and it seems like I can’t hardly find any info
I’m in the beginning stages of brainstorming for my memoir. Question. I am a first time writing and feel overwhelmed with this process there is a part of my life that I want to talk about that has its roots in some other areas in my life and I’m just concerned that the deeper I dig the greater the temptation will be for me to write and autobiography rather than a memoir. For example, I was to write about a religious experience I had (something I believed that was untrue) which was slowly destroying my faith, my relationship with friend , family and almost my marriage. In wanting to write about that one aspect of my life (which was about a three-year span) I can see the connections to where I was at that point to some earlier memories with my relationship with my father and with the kind of education I got in public school. Any suggestion on how you would approach a situation like this? Thank you so much for this video and your channel.
@The Proverbial Life if your draw to a autobiography more than a memoir go for it. Eather way the process will be hard work, just keep going! You've got it if you want it. You are the writer of the book so the time line controls is yours, use flash back possibly to reference past in effect of the present. Best of luck😁
Really cool video. Whoever you are girl super helpful! I'm nodding in agreement with every last word. Didn't expect something that assisting and relevant on the topic. Please elaborate some more on how to gather all thoughts and memories so it can be turned into chapters. I have exceptionally good short term memory but long term not always
anything is possible! it would help if those all tied in to an overarching idea. but you can cover multiple focus points as long as they're transitioned into each other well with personal stories and whatnot
My story is going to be about what it's like to live with a mentally unstable/drug addict mother. I want the theme to be something about how you can always grow from a situation. And I have tried to start it off a couple different ways, I need help! Please!!
Seems super intriguing. I say don't over think it, just sit down at that desk one night when you feel it's coming to you, and knock the hell out of that keyboard, Your editor will get paid for fine tuning it:) In one word just aim to put all your memories as precisely as it is in your mind on paper, that's what readers want.
My core theme is freedom. Molested since diapers many men, rape, mom abused me age 6-17. Bullied in school and another 30 y of adults including in laws and church. Made it through losing my identity and suicide 🦋🦋🦋🦋
My memoir will be mainly about my decillions to one event of freak misfortune I had in the lottery, which has never happened in the world before to anybody else, and about the consequences of the event happening. Should be popular you'd think. I'd read it. My story is ridiculous. How do I get it known about when it's written?
A caveat - DO NOT THROW IN THE DIRTY LAUNDRY AT SOMEBODY WHO IS CURRENTLY LIVING, THROUGH MEMOIRS! YOU CAN BE SUED FOR DEFAMATION OR WORSE, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS PUBLISHED!!!!!!!!!! You can throw in the dirty laundry at those who are dead through memoirs but don't buy into it because you may be sued for defamation by the heirs of those who died!!!!
While most of the advice is good (do NOT italicize), having it told by someone so young is not a good idea. There is not enough life lived for this to be believable.
Are you writing a memoir or thinking about it? What will yours be about? Drop a comment below and check out this post for more tips (including some examples): self-publishingschool.com/how-to-write-a-memoir/
Well, some others stories that i will use are my grandmothers stories. 👍🏻thanks for the video!
Unconditional sister Love
I have been writing my memoir over the last few years. I really want to get back into it so I tuned into your channel. I am 65 and the main message I want to pass on is that we are all worthy of love and have talents that we need to appreciate even if others dont. You are very wise for a person of your age. I wish I had been like you at your age but was coming to terms with a traumatic childhood. Thank you so much for this video. I will now get down to my writing.
Awesome! Let us know how we can help
holy synchronicity, batman. I am writing a memoir about how I learned to create my own reality and other secrets I learned along the way.
amazing stuff. I've entered the realm of the miraculous. anyway, thanks for the tips. good stuff. namaste.
Glad this was helpful!
Good luck, Luis! I am praying for you!
Thank you so much , girl . I am dyslexic and am in college. I have an essay due tonight . I can’t thank you enough , because it makes it so much easier to write . ✍️ 💗💖🥰🥺🥹😘
i am 73. i have lived an extroidinary life i learned alot i want to write about my life so when i die my words shall ring forever
I wrote a memoir that covered just a couple of years out of my life as a young girl. It was very painful to dig up this traumatic time in my life. I had to relive it and speak, showing my story in my voice as a child so my audience could feel my fear and pain. Every Sparrow that Falls by Rita Lee. I bled my heart out on paper in this story.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing your experience while writing. I began writing my memoir which consists of childhood trauma/abuse which caused me to suffer from mental illness in my alone time. As I wrote one of the chapters I cried while relieving the abuse. I applaud you for completing your task
I plan on writing a memoir about my childhood abuse, trauma and survival after a date with someone who later becomes a convicted kidnapper, rapist and murderer. My biggest problem is I feel very unrelatable to my target audience. My goal would be to provide insight to traumatized people, and showing gradual growth and the presence of resilience in the face of monsters but I’m not sure it would be an enjoyable read that people would want to participate in because it’s not pleasant, it’s very very unpleasant.
Most people love reading those kind of books. But you cant leave out the dirty details because that's why some people read those types of books.
🥺🥺🥺 good luck! Ü
Write it!!! Let it out.
It doesn’t have to be pleasant at the end of it all, it’s ur life your story , u can tell it best
best advise ive had is... write! just start writing and the message will be revealed through you re-living your testimony but I understand your apprehension... i think you just need to focus on the message while you're on the gritty parts but don't hold back! Best of luck to you in your journey... I'm past chapter one and just getting started with the uglies!
Thanks for posting this video! I've been struggling trying to write a memoir for college and I wish the professor would of included your video for direction for his students. Thanks again!
2:20 “this might take a few days” my teacher gives my 1 day to make the memoir
I'm about to do it...its al its finished. N I'm following. I'm recovering addict...my theme n focus is great
Thanks, this video helped me realize that my spaghetti needed more cheese. Again, Thanks!
Thank you for making a great and easy to follow guide! This was a great video to help me begin outlining my idea for my own memoir, as a healing process. Thanks!
I get this completely! Mines also for therapy reasons. Good luck!
Thx for writing this for my school and need to know what a memoir was
My memoir will showcase my journey through limerence, grief, PTSD, healing and self-transformation
everyone should learn to write an autobiography because it helps us to write memoir! this video was really helpful to me!
Thank you for this video I love your detailed and Simplicity of explaining how to go about writing a Memoir thank you
You’re welcome!! 🙂
@@selfpublishingTV how do I write autobiographical memoir?
Thank you. This is a very helpful video!!!
You’re welcome!
We’re having a 3-day event in two weeks with many bestselling authors. Tickets at $47 and prices go up tomorrow.
If you’re interested in learning more from him: AuthorAdvantageLive.com
Discount link here: selfpublishing.com/vseghetto-AAL
Thank you, you explained it better than my teacher did
This video has helped me start my memoir
I haven't even watched the full video yet but I just love her the way she talks and explains. Who is she? Is she an agent, editor, publisher or something?
rahul sharma IKR?! She’s done a really great job.
Thank you for sharing!!
I'm going to write a book !
Great video!
Great video. Loads of knowledge. 100%
Thank you for your video, it’s very helping
Thank you! This was hugely helpful :)
So glad that this helped you!!
VERY helpful! Thanks!
So glad that this helped you!
Thank you - very helpful 👌
Love from Nepal 🇳🇵
Thanks for this informative video...
I am writing a book about raising my granddaughter with a method which help her to become successful young adult, inspite of challenges.
Thank you so much!
Super thankful muchas gracias!
Very helpful thank you so much
Excellent! Very helpful indeed. Thank you 😊
Thanks for sharing your wonderful video with us. I learned a lot from it. Wishing you more success and prosperity.
Really helpful .
Thank you so much ❤️
Great to hear!
@@selfpublishingTV loads of love from India ..
Hi Bella! What a great video! Thank you so much. :)
It’s hard to find any information he says how to ride it but how do you put it together that’s where I’m stumped at this I don’t know what to put where or how to do it and it seems like I can’t hardly find any info
Every video tells us the same things on how to ride it and they all give us exact same tips
I’m in the beginning stages of brainstorming for my memoir. Question. I am a first time writing and feel overwhelmed with this process there is a part of my life that I want to talk about that has its roots in some other areas in my life and I’m just concerned that the deeper I dig the greater the temptation will be for me to write and autobiography rather than a memoir. For example, I was to write about a religious experience I had (something I believed that was untrue) which was slowly destroying my faith, my relationship with friend , family and almost my marriage. In wanting to write about that one aspect of my life (which was about a three-year span) I can see the connections to where I was at that point to some earlier memories with my relationship with my father and with the kind of education I got in public school. Any suggestion on how you would approach a situation like this? Thank you so much for this video and your channel.
@The Proverbial Life if your draw to a autobiography more than a memoir go for it. Eather way the process will be hard work, just keep going! You've got it if you want it. You are the writer of the book so the time line controls is yours, use flash back possibly to reference past in effect of the present. Best of luck😁
Really cool video. Whoever you are girl super helpful! I'm nodding in agreement with every last word. Didn't expect something that assisting and relevant on the topic. Please elaborate some more on how to gather all thoughts and memories so it can be turned into chapters. I have exceptionally good short term memory but long term not always
You're a good teacher
Can I use non linear time line for this.
Great video! Thank you for the tips!
good to see you, I am writing a memoir Love, literature and law. please enlighten me too
And if you haven't done it yet I'd love a video about the legal side of publishing a book, rights and royalties and all that. Thanks 👍
book that I'm working on is a collection of poems, letters and short stories/essay. Can you please tell me what genre does it belong to. 🙏 Please help
In my opinion it's an anthology
Can a memoir have like 3/4 focus points instead of one overall theme or focus . Is that possible ?
anything is possible! it would help if those all tied in to an overarching idea. but you can cover multiple focus points as long as they're transitioned into each other well with personal stories and whatnot
@@selfpublishingTV thank you so much for the reply !
Great job Bella.Your tips really helped. Thanks.
Thank you
My story is going to be about what it's like to live with a mentally unstable/drug addict mother. I want the theme to be something about how you can always grow from a situation. And I have tried to start it off a couple different ways, I need help! Please!!
Seems super intriguing. I say don't over think it, just sit down at that desk one night when you feel it's coming to you, and knock the hell out of that keyboard, Your editor will get paid for fine tuning it:)
In one word just aim to put all your memories as precisely as it is in your mind on paper, that's what readers want.
Hi...finally 1st viewer...
Wonderful, please slow down.
There's a video speed controller you can slow it down yourself :)
My core theme is freedom. Molested since diapers many men, rape, mom abused me age 6-17. Bullied in school and another 30 y of adults including in laws and church. Made it through losing my identity and suicide 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Rene’ Schultz you are truly strong
Madison Szallar thank you 😊😊
I would prefer you to tell us about what made you so strong and motivated really we can learn a lot 😉
Sending lots of love and light your way. Pls write that book. ❤️
Excellent- SLOW DOWN - YOU KNOW IT - I DON'T!
There's a video speed controller, you can slow it down yourself if you're having trouble following along :)
You have explained brilliantly but i have a request kindly speak slowly 😅
Great tips from a great looking girl.appreciate the advice
My memoir will be mainly about my decillions to one event of freak misfortune I had in the lottery, which has never happened in the world before to anybody else, and about the consequences of the event happening. Should be popular you'd think. I'd read it. My story is ridiculous. How do I get it known about when it's written?
A caveat - DO NOT THROW IN THE DIRTY LAUNDRY AT SOMEBODY WHO IS CURRENTLY LIVING, THROUGH MEMOIRS! YOU CAN BE SUED FOR DEFAMATION OR WORSE, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS PUBLISHED!!!!!!!!!!
You can throw in the dirty laundry at those who are dead through memoirs but don't buy into it because you may be sued for defamation by the heirs of those who died!!!!
I just avoided using names, or atleast real names, so far.
Please speak slower
While most of the advice is good (do NOT italicize), having it told by someone so young is not a good idea. There is not enough life lived for this to be believable.
We can agree to disagree. Life is a meritocracy, not a measuring stick of who’s older
❤ thank you. I got some really good information.