LIT ESSAY

• Memory - A partial story of someone's life.
• Memoir - A French word for memory.
• HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR:

  1. Write what you remember
  2. Become the narrator/main character
  3. Be a central force of the life story as you recount what happened in the past and what it means to you in the "now"
  4. Use first person "I" POV
  5. A good memoir invites readers to contemplate with the narrator the remembered events and their importance
• Personal - It is a category of information or property belonging to a particular person only.
• Personal Memoir - an author tackles a formative, personal experience from their life.
• Portrait - a representation of a person.
• Portrait Memoir - the subject is someone other than the author. The memoir is still through the eyes of the author, and they probably lay a big role in the narrative, but the real focus lies with someone else.
• Political - this relates to the government of public affairs of a country.
• Political Memoir - this memoir is usually written politicians. It can be personal memoir in form, but often with the larger goal of ingratiating themselves to readers to get their vote and support.
• Public - this relates to things concerning the majority.
• Public Memoir - this is a memoir of someone who is well-known.
• Travel - this relates to moving from a location to another destination.
• Travel Memoir - this refers to a memoir of someone who logs the details about their travels.
• WRITING A MEMOIR:

  1. KNOW THE WHY
  2. DETERMINE THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE, AND END
  3. DON'T GET STUCK WITH FACTS
• KNOW THE WHY - most important question to ask yourself when you're about to write the great memoir is, "Why will people care about this?"
• CONSIDER BEGINNING, MIDDLE AND END - think about how the story would begin, how it will be in the middle, and how will it end.
• DON'T GET WITH FACTS - you can inform the reader of the details of your story. Just be careful not to go too much on the detail because it might get boring.
• Personal Memoir - this type of memoir tackles intimate details about an author's life.
• Public Memoir - it is a type of memoir concerning someone who is well-known or famous.
• Portrait Memoir - This type of memoir refers to the author writing about someone else's life instead of his own.