A memoir post that I wrote for Carrot Ranch on memoir.
By Irene Waters
I write memoir – my memories of particular times or events in my life. In this process, through no fault of their own other than being part of my life I write another person’s narrative.
Who are the other people in our story – firstly there is the “I,” and then because we don’t live our lives in isolation, there are those people whose lives intertwine. It is impossible to leave out these other people when we recount our memoirs, but we must remember that they are having their story written as unwitting real-life characters and as such are due a good deal of respect. So how do we deal with these people?
Ideally, we tell them that we are writing a memoir in which they feature. Don’t show them what you have written until the book has had close to its final edit. Where possible stay…
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I’m so impressed by this post, Irene, and have left a longer comment about it at Carrot Ranch.
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Thanks Sharon. I too have left a comment at the Ranch.
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Thanks for furthering our understanding of the many tentacles of memoir writing.
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