Crafting a compelling memoir means that you write with focus and intent. Your memoir isn’t just a list of things that have happened to you, rather it’s a narrative of how you navigated your life and what you’ve learned as a result. But sometimes, finding that center—that “So what” factor—can make us feel lost and uncertain. But finding that purpose is so much more simple than you realize. Let’s talk about it.
December brings everything that exhausts me: parties, gatherings, celebrations, deadlines, appointments, performances, expectations, the burden of everyone’s holiday wishes. And I also have to make sure to make time for reflection because, after all, Christmas is all about Jesus.
In early 2020, several months before our tenth wedding anniversary, I thought we could go somewhere fun, Hawaii maybe. We don’t often travel just to travel, and what better reason to splurge on a beach vacation sans kids than to celebrate a decade of marriage?
I’m not going to bury the lede:
“Normal” people 100 percent can write a memoir.
If you want to write a memoir, then you can write a memoir.