... else's when writing. It should all go on the page. Find the heart of your essay or memoir and then craft the story around that. But first you must be free to put it all down on paper. Ideally I write ... . Most of the times discovering things I never realized. The best part about writing memoir is the treasure you uncover in the writing. I didn't know that the knitted potholder was about ...

... "Nightmare Fairy Tales". The weasel motherfucker has zero courage and I haven't seen any consequences on his lying, smearing, cheating, worthless ass. That sonofabitch should be in jail and even HE basically admitted it. I can guarantee I ain't reading his fucking memoir, what, "I don't recall" on every page? Spit. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

... to the public, not just for therapy. Someone once said that all writing is autobiography, which we recognize in all the great novels of the past. Somehow today we value the "authenticity" of memoir over the craft of a good story. Personally I think it's just marketing & pandering to the same impulse towards voyeurism that sells gossip magazines, & makes Oprah, & Jerry ...

... we knew from Full House. In Jodie Sweetin’s memoir, available November 3, Sweetin recounts her downward spiral and tales ... anti-drug speeches at colleges. In Jodie Sweetin’s tell-all memoir, Sweetin writes, “I was back to partying like I ... is a sad one, I’m not so sure people will be interested enough in her tale to buy the memoir. Will you buy the Jodie Sweetin memoir? Do ...

... Salon in which Laura Miller begins her article on Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda with the question " ... insists in his breezy new consideration of the form, "Memoir: A History"?" She later says that today material ... written as fiction (she uses The Bell Jar as an example) would more likely be written as memoir. And, of course, she mentions the story of how James Frey couldn' ...

... closely...the section I was standing in was actually labeled "Memoir and Biography." What caused me to look up and notice that was that Senator ... books like Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir (by James Salant). Other things I noted ... Swayze and his wife Lisa Niemi (is their book memoir or biography? Discuss amongst yourselves). And yet, Mackenzie Phillips who is, well, let' ...