How To Take Your Memoir To The Next Level

Share your emotional truth.

Melissa Miles McCarter
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readJun 16, 2023

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We all know the phrase, as writers, “Show, not tell.” The same can be true of writing a memoir. Before I took my writing to the next level, I confused writing an essay with a memoir. The fact is lots of memoirs are collections of essays. But good memoirs, even in essay form, often read like novels and have a narrative structure that includes…

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