A Heart for Memoir

Jan 21 

I’m still here…. showing up in my own blog for 1 year! So let me share what I discovered today. I have a new love. 

Have you ever discovered something in life so wonderful that you regret or grieve that you didn’t know about it or pay attention to that thing sooner? WOW!!!!!!! 

Well, I have. And I am filled with regret but I will get over it. What am I talking about. I just discovered a love for writing MEMOIR. 

I absolutely love everything about memoir writing. I know some of you are thinking what is the big deal about memoir and what is memoir. 

I have read many memoir books… I have enjoyed them. But I don’t know what happened but I got introduced to possibly writing memoir for someone at a publishing company and I began to really study it and I fell in love with it. Like got bit by the memoir bug. So much so… I have to write my own memoir. 

I am not sure when I will begin that venture but I will. So if you dont know what memoir is let me tell you.

“A memoir is a non-fictional, first personal written account of events and memories from the author’s real life. Memoirs (French for “memory” or “reminisce”) focus on personal experience, intimacy, and emotional truth. The author plays with their memories and with real life in order to tell a good story. For this reason, memoirs are not bound to formal expectations around chronology or factual accuracy. Memoir authors choose a pivotal moment in their lives, a certain span of time and try to recreate the event through storytelling. The author’s feelings and assumptions are central to the narrative. Memoirs still include all the facts of the event, but the author has more flexibility here because she is telling a story as she remembers it, not as others can prove or disprove it.”

I love everything about that definition. I can’t wait to write mine and leave it for my children and others to read. I want people to know who I really am. Why I do what I do. What shaped my faith. Why I love the Lord so much and more. Memoir will do that for me. 

Now, why the regret… because I could have been 30 years in this lifestyle of writing and helping others writer theirs. Im 57 (April 5 this year) and I feel I’ve wasted at least 30 years of my life and I could have been in this love of writing path.

But, all things happen in time for a reason so I will deal with the hand I am dealt and go for it now. 

So my new love took me to two memoirs I got today to read. 

Natural Disaster: I Cover them, I am One by Ginger Zee 

The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper 

Check these out you may love them too. 

What about you.. what have you discovered later in your life that you love but wish you had been involved in it much earlier? 

Let’s talk about it. Please reply to this blog post. It’s never too late. I’m going for my dream. How about you?