Are You Writing Memoir?

Here I tell you a little about how my Substack is expanding, and how in addition to my Memoir WIP Surgery and in celebration of London Lit Lab’s ten years of teaching, I will be bringing my teaching into my newsletters.

I will still keep up my Sunday post, but will also choose a topic each week - it might be one of the following:

• Where to start

• Focusing in on ‘moments’

• Slanted detail

• Finding your voice

• The dual narrative

• Memoir as metaphor

• Unconventional structure

• Hybrid forms and speculation in memoir

• What is truth?

• Interiority and why it’s challenging

• Family matters

• Deceiving yourself: why it doesn’t work

• The importance of revision

Or other stumbling blocks for those of you who are writing memoir. I will use examples of brilliant memoirs I have read, and interviews I have had, plus extracts and tips for technique, to make And A Dog The Place to be for anyone who loves memoir.

For those of you unfamiliar with my Memoir WIP Surgery, here are more details