According to David Henry Sterry, speaking this morning at the James River Writers Conference, the key to great memoir is to have lots of really horrendous things happen to you and you don’t die.
According to David Henry Sterry, speaking this morning at the James River Writers Conference, the key to great memoir is to have lots of really horrendous things happen to you and you don’t die.
That is a very good rule of thumb. The last bit, “… and you don’t die.” cannot be overstated if you wish to write a memoir at all.