IACCW Member Event
How to Write a Powerful Memoir with Linda Joy Myers
2nd December 2010
A memoir is a beacon of light sent out to illuminate the journey of life for others. Writing a memoir invites us to encounter our Real Selves on the page and guide the reader through our journey from innocence to understanding.
Writing a memoir requires that we select our vignettes from many stories and memories, so learning techniques helps to make this process easier and helps the writer focus on the most important stories and themes.
We all are living stories, we carry them in our bodies and they haunt our dreams. Many writers worry whether they should write their memories, since they’re also the stories of others that reveal family secrets and hidden truths.
However, research has shown that writing stories helps to put the past in perspective and creates a path of forgiveness for ourselves and others; writing is a powerful way to witness our own lives. Weaving back and forth as both the character “I” and the narrator in a story is an integrative process that transforms us through the process of writing.
By the end of this interview you will know:
- How to find your powerful turning points to create the structure of your memoir.
- Ways to weave the dark and the light stories of your life into a whole.
- How to use scenes to deepen your story and understanding of yourself as the character in the story and the narrator of the story.
- The techniques of finding your story arc.
- How to write your truths and still go home for the holidays.
Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., MFT, is the President and Founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers (NAMW). NAMW invites memoir writers from all over the world to connect, learn, and become inspired about writing their stories, and helps writers feel empowered to develop their life stories into a publishable memoir. NAMW offers their members a unique package of membership benefits that includes free and discounted writing workshops and teleseminars related to craft & technique as well as the emotional and transformational power of memoir, platform building & publishing tools. www.namw.org
For the last thirty years Linda Joy has been a therapist, author, and writing coach in Berkeley, California. She is the author of the groundbreaking memoir writing how-to book, The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story, and the prize winning memoir Don’t Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother Daughter Abandonment. Her specialty through the years has been to help people to become healed and transformed through self-expression, creativity, art, and writing. www.lindajoymyersphd.com
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