Please contact us at plus@slate.com for help. To some, the act of writing a memoir might seem daunting, invasive, or navel-gazing. But excavating memories, noticing patterns, and revisiting events ...

How we choose to tell our personal story is as personal as the stories themselves, therefore our writing process should be one of personal experiences. Call it what you want; memoir, autobiography ...

Elissa Altman's 'Permission' combines Altman's personal history with her shrewd perspective on the form's pitfalls and ...

Do you have a family story that you’re bursting to tell? This course will guide you through a series of stimulating writing exercises to help you tell the tale. Learn how to make use of photos, ...

Writing your memoirs will lead you into emotionally difficult territory. How much of what you write will be the truth? And how do you select what to write about? We asked Martin Amis and Lisa ...

Martin Amis "Another reason why I wanted to write my family memoir, Losing the Dead, is that although my parents were in many ways very ordinary people, they did live through a historical moment ...

Find a voice that gives your memoir a sense of vivacity. Think of your children reading it and ask yourself as you write - will this interest them? "The trouble with life, the novelist feels ...

Mr. McAllister is a novelist and the author of the memoir “Bury Me in My Jersey.” I was grading assignments for an undergraduate course in memoir writing when I experienced a severe crisis of ...

Melisse is currently writing a memoir, set in Toronto and the Niagara Peninsula, about being raised by a child psychologist who starts to hear voices. She lives in New York. You can follow Melisse ...