Material from your journal might find its way into your memoir, however, a memoir comes from a place of understanding while a journal is an attempt to understand. I’ve heard writers say, “How can I write my ending when I’m still living my life?” The ending of your memoir is not the end of your life (though it might feel like that.) It is the completion of a theme.Ģ) A memoir is not a journal. It wants the truth.ġ) Begin with the end in mind. Our subconscious is not interested in protecting our ego. It is able to make connections and uncover meaning in areas we might never have explored. Our subconscious is the seat of our genius. So, how do we write our memoir if we don’t know the whole story? By trusting our subconscious. Though our ideas are never incorrect, they are often incomplete. How we interpret the facts determines the meaning we make out of the events, and commonly our idea of our story is never the whole story. We all have the story that we tell, either to our self or others, and although the facts may be indisputable, our perception of these facts is subjective. The goal in writing a dynamic memoir lies in offering a transformative experience for our protagonist (our self) by making the personal universal. The challenge in writing a memoir is that self-examination is not typically meant to be shared.
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