For a five minute memoir you need to spend five minutes discussing an event in your life. You want the characters to jump off the page. You want the story to have some larger reason for being- universal meaning. You are going to have to think this out before you write and not all events were create equally. Impact and topic are really important.
When you write a five minute life story or life review need to answer each question below with one sentence
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here are different thoughts about how to start a writing project. Some people think you need to do an outline of your life to give you the guide to start writing. This path means you start at the beginning of our life and you proceed in a straight order.Some people need a linear order to write and keep writing. Another thought is to do a time line where you list the major dates of events of your life . I am not a member of this group but I have attended their free teleconferences and got useful information. If you are serious about writing and if you have the time you, it is time well spent. We record our memories with our own vantage point and filters. That is why siblings often have different parents yet the same DNA. We all remember things that we think are important to us and that can be different for different family members. We also bring those same filters when we would review the video of an event recorded. |
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