Reading Linda Joy Myers’ WOW article, “Beginning Your Memoir and Creating Your Narrative Arc,” was an aha! moment for me. As soon as I began scanning it, I realized I was reading something special in the field of memoir and I began to understand some of the mysteries about the whole process.

Beginning Your Memoir

It’s all in the amazing April Newsletter of WOW-Women on Writing that features the craft of memoir, journaling, and personal narrative. Linda Joy Myers, Founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers, has condensed her considerable expertise into a series of simple, clear components.

But the most important of these is how she directs the memoir writer to consider the message that she is intending to send the reader: the lesson, the theme, or the knowledge that might touch, move, or transform.

What clicked for me is that personal narrative is both personal and transpersonal. It is an internal process with benefits to the writer and a public sharing that reaches out to inspire the reader.

Of course, that all takes skill and devotion to craft. This article and many others in this very fine newsletter provides further tips and pointers for voice, character, and even more…

I recommend any and all women interested in memoir and in Wisdom Has a Voice to visit the link and peruse these articles!