A more psychologically astute memoir: writing painful memories can help you go deeper.

Download YOUR FREE COPY: "21 Must Do Memoir-Writing Tasks / Best Practices / How to Write Quickly and Well”: eepurl.com/iuZwsE We all arrive at adulthood with some painful memories, but painful memories need not block you from writing your memoir. In this video, I offer you procedures for dealing with and healing those memories. In fact, working with your painful memories can help you write a more psychologically astute memoir. Of course, writing about painful memories should not be an occasion to re-traumatize yourself. Stop for the moment if you feel overcome, but if you feel ready to write about a painful time, begin by writing all the details of the memory. Details need not be significant. For example, if there was a cup of coffee on the table, mention it. You will find that little details help bring your memory back—and help situate your reader in the memoir drama. Here is an e-course that I have curated just for you: ~ Memoir Writing is Healing    • Painful Memories Will Surface; Memoir...   ~ Ouch! Writing Painful Memories    • WORK WITH AND THROUGH PAIN; NO NEED F...   ~ Writing Difficult Truth    • DON'T AVOID PAINFUL MEMORIES   ~ Negative Emotions in your memoir    • Write All Your Feelings—And Write The...   If you would like to read this material as a blog post, go to: thememoirnetwork.com/difficult-painful-memories-ca… DEAR MEMOIR WRITER: There are many reasons to write a memoir, but not all of them will see you through to a successful completion of your book. ~ FOR YOUR FREE COPY of "21 Must Do Memoir-Writing Tasks / Best Practices / How to Write Quickly and Well”: eepurl.com/iuZwsE ~ FOR A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE BASICS OF MEMOIR WRITING, check out: THE MEMORABLE STORY / WRITE YOUR FIRST MEMOIR DRAFT at thememoirnetwork.com/write-your-first-memoir-draft… "Ledoux has written another super useful book ["21 Must Do Memoir-Writing Tasks / Best Practices]. He leads the memoir writer to the most important tasks to tackle right away. My hat’s off again to this master writer. He always saves me a lot of time and bother." — Patrick Greenleaf ~ WANT TO GET FOCUSED ABOUT YOUR MEMOIR? Check out: ~ coaching: thememoirnetwork.com/memoir-writing-services/writi… ~ editing: thememoirnetwork.com/memoir-writing-services/memoi… ~ FOR A FREE MEMOIR-WRITING MEMBERSHIP to help you write to the end, go to: thememoirnetwork.com/register/ LASTLY: 1. SUBSCRIBE to this channel. Subscribing will alert you to new videos that provide you with just-in-time learning. Your subscription is also one of the factors YouTube algorithms use to suggest videos to new viewers. We hope you will come back again and again on our channel to pick up the nuggets that make a difference to your writing life 2. COMMENT. I'll endeavor to answer every question to leave here. So be in touch. The number of comments also cues YouTube as to the importance of a channel to its viewers. YouTube uses comments as one of the metrics to decide what to prioritize in its search and suggest function. 3. "LIKE" YouTube also uses "like" metrics to list videos in a search in order of popularity. Help bring the memoir conversation to more people by "liking" this channel. Thank you, and whatever you do today, write a bit on your memoir.

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