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  • You must include at least one positive keyword with 3 characters or more.
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Writing Prompts for Memoir Writers

Would-be memoir writers often wonder how to get started. Do they just hire a ghostwriter and pay for phone time to start telling their stories and getting them into documents? That's one way to begin, but it's not the only way. It is important to start the writing yourself so you can begin seeing the themes and lessons that you will want to emphasize in your memoir or book of life lessons. Here are three writing prompts for you memoir writers who are trying to figure out how to tell your life story.

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
Anaïs Nin

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By definition, the modern practice of history begins with written records; evidence of human culture without writing is the realm of prehistory.