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10 Questions to Figure Out What Your Memoir is REALLY About

Scheduled

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Time

7 pm EDT / 4 pm PDT

Duration

2 Hours

Cost

$35

Subject

Publishing

Topic

Craft

Memoir is a deeply challenging genre for any writer seeking to parlay real-life events into a story that connects with total strangers. As Mary Karr observes, “a fiction writer starts with meaning and then manufactures events to represent it; a memoirist starts with events, then derives meaning from them.” Deriving meaning is a lengthy, complex process and not at all obvious to any writer who attempts it.

One big challenge at the outset is figuring out the “container” for your book: Where to begin, where to end, what to include, what to exclude, and how to tell a compelling story about your transformational journey.

This is a tall order! This symposium explores a framework of 10 essential questions to help you make critical choices about your book’s structure and to see the big picture.

This presentation will cover:

  • A step-by-step overview of the 10 questions addressing a range of considerations, including your “why” for the book, its point, the archetype shaping your story, nailing your book’s concept, defining the ideal reader, and more.
  • Brief analysis of how well-written memoirs are put together.
  • A chance to work on one or two of the 10 questions and receive group feedback.

You will learn:

  • Strategies for putting your story into a deeper, broader context
  • To understand the strengths and weaknesses of your approach to your story
  • To recognize common pitfalls of the memoir genre
  • Factors to consider when deciding the scope of your story, including the beginning and ending.

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Host

Amy L. Bernstein
Amy L. Bernstein writes award-winning, genre-crossing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her most recent book is Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration, a hybrid work for self-doubting creatives, shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize. Her fifth novel, Seed, is forthcoming from Running Wild Press. Amy is also a professional book coach, helping nonfiction writers to develop […]

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