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Monday 31 December 2012

Helpful Tips In Writing A Memoir

By Audra Olson


A narrative write-up recounting a personal experience is called a memoir. This may serve as a remembrance about a significant happening or a specific period of one's life. There could be different intents and purposes for writing a memoir. Sometimes, it is to inspire the readers through relating how an influential and successful person reached for his dreams. Other times, it is just used to educate.

However, producing a quality write-up is far from easy. There are various challenges that the writer needs to be concerned about. It is extremely challenging if the writer forgets important bits of information that are significant to the overall quality of the article. It is equally difficult when the writer vividly remembers everything that he no longer knows which one to include.

Making up your mind before starting out can save you a lot of trouble. This limits your mistakes and help you come up with a quality writing. You need to decide which issue, occurrence or topic to engage in. Think about your target readers as well. This helps you determine the approach and writing style to use.

Write a draft. Write down every aspect you want to include in your write-up based on the data you gathered. It does not really have to be organized as this is still the rawest form of the article. Jot down everything for future references. You may just correct, polish and finalize the writings later on.

After putting down all the available information, do a review on the article. This will help you determine if the information you used are correct and factual. Evaluate your write-up. This is also the best time to get useful feedback from readers, close friends, relatives and other people you trust. View the articles from different points of view.

Revise any part of your work as you see fit. You need to make the needful changes before publishing your writings. You must also consider the preferences, classifications and categories of your readers that can influence the approach and writing style that you use. For example, you need to use a more conversational style when catering to students, while a more formal approach is advisable if your main readers are business people.

Do not forget the technicalities in writing as well. After the parts are finally organized, you need to dot the i's and cross the t's. Check the punctuations, grammar and spellings to ensure that your articles are error-free. Grammar and structuring may significantly affect your work. Your work may not be a good read at all if it is filled with mistakes, no matter how interesting it may have been.

Sometimes, you need to revise, edit and polish your writings more than once. Still, you must not feel too tired to work on the editing even if you have to do it for the tenth time. Until the write-ups are satisfactory enough, you must not publish it yet. There are published works that may not be easily rectified, especially in prints.

Conclusively, writing a memoir does not follow a strict guideline. As a part of liberal arts, it is more lenient to the approach that you can use. The writer may do what he thinks is the best for his works. As long as the message are clearly conveyed to the readers and the write-ups are error-free in terms of information and grammar.




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