"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day. "
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.
Recently, the writer and neurologist Alice W. Flaherty has argued that literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that writer's block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas.