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Vinecia, start with a catchy title and begin writing in the middle of the story. As you write, the story will tell you how it begins and how it ends. I also tend to ramble on and loose my focus. I feel like if I do have to read on how to write, I will never write. I might just go with the flow and write cold turkey. I figured since I never read a novel, that I cannot copy from anyone and whatever I write will be coming from me, mine, pulling from way back God knows where. Then I will leave the the rest up to the editors. I mean, I see some crazy stuff out there and the Authors are doing well.

Good luck and happy writing. Bernadine, I wish you all the best on your writing journey! I encourage you to think of it at this point as journaling for your own self-discovery, rather than as professional writing to be read by others.

It is too easy, I believe, for many writers to adopt definitions of success and failure that are appropriate to a different type of writing from the one they are doing. Not reading a single novel not one????? If your book accomplishes that, it will be a success, by the right definition.

But until then, you are right that getting too hung up on reading about writing can get in the way of actually doing the writing. Listen to your story after you begin writing and it will tell you how it wants to be written. Do I write the last page first?

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You can literally do it however you want. I think Neil and Bettye are on to something. I have long been a fan of fiction and have never really considered a memoir but I definitely think that creating distance is a good start—it definitely can help with the objectivity. As far as whether to start in the beginning, middle in media res or end depends on the impact you want to have on the reader.

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Great post, Marian. Part of the reason I love to write is that it connects me with old emotions and helps me process and write them as honestly as possible. I love this advice and will definitely be using it from now on! I also agree about writing as if the memoir were fiction. The only memoirs I truly love are the ones that I would never know were memoirs.

I want to get sucked into a story and I think too often writers who focus solely on personal narrative and non-fiction get caught up in the facts too much. So who knows, maybe this memoir will turn into a novel! Hey Marian, I just love the way you pen down your first masterpiece! You see I am quite into writing a book for a really long time, but have always abstained!! I guess post reading this write-up, I feel quite inspired and that hitch of what and how exactly should I structure my story is beginning to vanish.

You taught us a really tricky yet helpful technique of how to frame in Step 3. Must say, a really helpful one!

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Best of luck with your own story! I am also working on a memoir. We have the same game plan, so I hope you are right! It is a great example of a memoir, IMO. Good luck getting onto Modern Love and your future book release! OMG I submitted to the same anthology! I wish we had known about each other sooner otherwise we could have formed our own little EPL writing circle. Thank you, Marian, for your very helpful and practical advice.

I found the answer to a stumbling block I had. So much so that it slowed down my writing. I found a very simple device that has solved the problem. I chose another name for myself and wrote in the third person. I was amazed at how much more smoothly my woods flowed when I was not aware I was speaking about my own experiences.

I like that idea Bettye.

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I found I was having the same issue and even stopped working with my book coach and did not pitch an editor who was considering me for a column. However, having had some essays published recently has helped. My issues boiled down to fear. It is your life out there for the world to judge. Handling a few internet trolls is going to help me deal with criticism when my book is published. Bettye I like your idea of a pen name and writing in as the third person. I too have found it difficult to write my story and found that I stumbled on my words even though I had already done a lot of work and wrote out the main outline Scrivener.

I will try your idea and see what happens. Thanks for sharing. Marian, Thanks for sharing the difficult details about getting started. I think learning from every writer, regardless of how published or accomplished is incredibly important. I once had a professor comment on a story that to really flourish, I should explore every technique of story telling until I found the one that fit the most. What it basically is have a large calendar near your writing station. Thanks again for sharing. I really appreciate the honesty about your difficulties and strategies — it can be really motivating to know that in this solitary action we take, there are others doing the same!

I had not thought of reading my favorite authors and using them as a launching off point, but I do the same thing when I listen to music and try to emulate my favorites when I start trying to write songs! Thanks for the tip! Hello Marian, I just happened to read how you started writing and it really kept me glued to it until i was through it.

I wish I could write a book too. I would try your tricks and ways mentioned in it. Great piece! Yes, each of us has to find our own way, exploring and experimenting. I started out with Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, began daily writing for a half hour, then a JC course in creative writing thinking I wanted to be a nature writer.

Came out of the course a poet.

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Dabbled in that for years, continuing to read anything and everything about writing, nature writing and then memoir. Suddenly my ten year old inner child began writing her memoir. Loving playing with that, and interestingly, the latest version is written as poetry. I continue my half hour daily writing and another memoir seems to be appearing on the pages. I would be lost without my writing! Keep up your explorations and experiments — but never forget to walk the dog my dogs and I are helping walk him for you now so you are off the hook on that one. I love this Jan!

Amy Poehler has a great quote about this very thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing. Maybe it will turn into a novel. Maybe I need to write this just to get one essay out of it. Who knows. I have found that to be exactly the case with the book I am writing now. The good news is that it is the hardest part.

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The words just fly see how I did that? Fasten your seatbelt Penguin Books. Thank you for sharing your process with us this morning, Mariam. There are plenty of good ideas here. Thank you so much for the recommendation Kathi!


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This was an interesting piece and so helpful. I especially love the part about reading snippets of other writers to get going. I thought I was the only one who did that! I also like the idea of planning and writing as a routine. Thank you.