This post highlights the most essential element of memoir: meaning-making reflection. Memoir is not just a collection of stories. It must offer a balance of curated recounting and meaning-making reflection; demonstrating the unique within the universal. A memoir writer who has not taken the time to make meaning from their own challenges and outcomes has not found the heart of their memoir.

They might be closed but their awesomeness is in tact. In November 2021, I wrote a post for my blog titled “ Write with Purpose Using...

Having a special place, time, and method for writing puts you in the right frame of mind to produce.