Great memoir dialog will make your story memorable.

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A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new ideas he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. —William Stafford, poet

I. Great memoir dialog will make your story memorable.

Of course you know dialog is important in your memoir but do you know why and are you confident about creating such dialog? ?

This week I created content on how to write better memoir conversation. ?

To read this content, click here, and to view it, click here.??

In addition to the post or the video, you will receive a special e-course I have curated for you.

If you like the material, share it with your writer friends—directly or via social media. Like our video (and subscribe).

II.?French Boy?needs reviews!

I want to thank all of you who have bought?French Boy?and have written reviews. Reviews help bring the book to the attention of readers. Reviews inform Amazon algorithms about which books to suggest to browsers.

If you have read the book, could you please write a review? It need not be long. Something as simple as: "I enjoyed this glimpse into the author's young years. You will, too" is sufficient—along with the?*****?!

Please click?here?and take ONE minute to write something on Amazon. It doesn't take longer than that.

If you have not read the book,?please reciprocate for all that you have received from The Memoir Network over the months and years?that you have been receiving this helping hand.

If you are writing a memoir, you owe it to yourself and your book's future to?support memoir writing by buying memoirs. What goes around for another book comes around for yours. Click?here?to purchase either a hard copy or an e-copy of?French Boy. It's simply good karma on your part. Oh yes...

After you have read the book, leave a review.

If you'd like to hear a portion of French Boy read by me, click?here. If you leave a comment, I will answer you.

III. Keep yourself in high spirits.

Yes, you start to write with a burst of enthusiasm. You are super energized! ?

“By gosh, this memoir is going to get written and it’s going to be good!” you tell yourself.

And the writing flows. For weeks your writing motivation remains high. You write regularly and you think about how to make your memoir better and better. At last, you feel like you are a “real writer!” Then… ?

A day—or two or three—goes by without any writing. Then that “not writing” repeats itself the next week—for a day or perhaps three. ?

“But that’s ok,” you tell yourself. “I’m just taking a few days off.” But… ?

The few days off eventually become many days off and the memoir begins to seem a bit less interesting. You reread a few pages and—well, they seem a bit trite. What’s the point? ?

You realize you are not making much progress. Your writing motivation is on the wane. You ask yourself… ?

“Is this really worth my time to write?” ?

You have entered a dangerous zone! You are in the territory of quitting. ?

Don’t. ?

You can succeed at writing your memoir. No one said it was going to be easy—just that you can do it. The fact is… ?

Many people just like you have written interesting and meaningful memoirs and so can you. ?

Stay in the memoir conversation! Stay with The Memoir Network. Read the hundreds of articles on the?blog. Gift yourself with the many?writing materials?we have available to guide your process.

Here's a?video?about writing when you don't feel like writing.

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IV. In conclusion

Good luck with your writing and be sure to write a bit on your memoir today.

And remember: “Inch by inch, it’s a cinch; yard by yard, it’s hard.”

Denis and The Memoir Network Team

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