2. What is a memoir?
It focuses and reflects on the relationship between the writer and a particular person, place, animal, or object.
It explains the significance of the relationship.
It is limited to a particular phase, time period, place, or recurring behavior in order to develop the focus fully.
It makes the subject of the memoir come alive.
It maintains a first person point of view.

4. Memoirs from Photography
I will Always Remember
Memoirs from Life
Writing in the First Person

5. Journal Prompt Write three things that… Make you Cry Make you Angry
Make you Laugh
Make you Afraid
Give you Hope
Get you Excited
Make you Frustrated

6. Now that you’ve got some ideas to kick around, it’s time to start making choices.

7. In order to take your draft to the next level, it’s important to see and hear it from new perspectives. It’s time to see it through new eyes!

8. Revision means finding out what’s working and what’s not working in a memoir. Discovering what’s working is usually the easiest part of the revision process. However, throwing out what’s not working takes great strength.
10 Ways to Revise a Memoir

9. Dot your i's, cross your t's
Dot your i's, cross your t's. Fine-tune your memoir by making sure all the nitty-gritty stuff is in order. While the following lessons on grammar and punctuation may seem obvious to some, serious writers take the mechanics of writing seriously!

10. Publish your work, make it public, and let others enjoy what you’ve created! Scholastic Art & Writing Award-winner Olivia Murphy talks about the rewards that come from taking the risk of submitting a work for publication, "Getting published for the first time is... almost indescribable. Knowing that someone out there, anyone at all, wants to read your inner musings — it’s beyond happiness." Getting published can also help you with college and scholarship applications.