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What's the "Me" in Memoir?--Avoiding Overwriting When You're Writing about Your Life

What's the "Me" in Memoir?--Avoiding Overwriting When You're Writing about Your Life

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Mar 18, 2009
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Memoirs--sometimes they feel to us writers like we're talking to ourselves, not seeing the forest for the trees. But isn't that what memoir is? Or is it?

What exactly is a memoir? And how does a writer become "the writer" and not "The Writer" (see last week's post, below, on the dangers of The Writer's presence in books)?

A reader from Louisiana wrote thi…

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