Kathy Tuten

Writers! Start Your Memoirs! Kathy Tuten

A handbook to help would-be memoirists get words onto paper and organize their thoughts so they can tell their story. The handbook contains 40+ Workspaces with writing prompts to give writers ideas to draw from, many, many ideas. It includes tips on how to organize a general memoir as well as several different kinds of memoirs, like the illness memoir, an animal memoir, a travel memoir, a food memoir, a 'passages' memoir, a business memoir or a legacy memoir. Also, how to outline a manuscript to make it very readable. How to interview people. Resources: where to go to find information. How to deal with the bad stuff as well as the good stuff. What to put in and what to leave out. A good, simple, easy to read handbook of suggestions for writing a life story.