Lists are a simple and accessible writing technique. Everyone makes lists. These lists may be as basic as shopping lists or as daunting as To Do Lists. But lists can also help you establish your priorities and lists can help you create a vision of your future, while helping you identify obstacles, resources and solutions.
So how can lists help memoir writers?
Lists are another way of establishing the structure you want to impose on your materials.
If you feel ready:
- Take a spreadsheet – on your computer or in ‘real-life’.
- Write your themes and subthemes either across the top of the columns.
- Down the side, fill in topics such as events, dates, points of view (with references to interviews (dates and storage), locations,anything else which seems important to you.
- Fill in the data.
- Review what you have learned about your project from this exercise.
- Free-write (5mins): ‘What I want my memoir to say about my life’.
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