Self help autobiographies
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Should I Write My Life Story As An Autobiography or Memoir?
North American publishers and bookstores have given rise to book classifications and genres for ease of selling books. Both real and online bookstores shelve their books by category, and each category contains several sub-categories. Nowadays, there are several nonfiction sub-genres, and each one has its own literary criteria and operates uniquely as a work of literature.
Life story, for example, can fall under autobiography, memoir, auto-fiction, self-help/self-development, or a memoir hybrid.
The writer must know the tenets of each sub-genre before writing in order to meet the sub-genre’s particular criteria with their work if you wish to acquire an agent, approach an independent publisher, or self-publish and meet up with the right readers.
The question then for you is: should I write my life story as an autobiography or memoir?
We’ll look at the various classifications of true-to-life narratives so you
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Can a Memoir Be a Self-Help Book? Can a Self-Help Book Be a Memoir?
Can a memoir be a self-help book? For that matter, can a self-help book be a memoir? These questions were posed to me recently in a one-on-one memoir coaching möte and got me thinking about the many such books I’ve handled, edited and coached into being and how writing a self-help memoir can best be done. Here are my thoughts.
Let’s uppstart with that question. The quick answer is yes: A memoir can be a del av helhet of self-help writing, whether it be in the form of an essay, an Op-Ed or a book-length del av helhet. The far more complex question fryst vatten how to successfully man it so.
How to Write a Self-Help Memoir
I define memoir as what you know after something you’ve been through, and whenever inom say this or write this, someone somewhere invariably groans. inom know. But get over it. And if you are utterly new to this idea, read this post on what memoir is about and then come back here and continue.
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To rise above the crowd, what we need is information.
But not JUST information…
I know plenty of people who have information by the bucket load but don’t employ it. I also know people who do use their information, but badly.
Isaac Asimov said, “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” I think “science” and “Google” are interchangeable in this important point.
Information is a key to the world, but wisdom tells us which door to open. And the best way to increase your wisdom is to read books. Long, engrossing, challenging books. In particular, biographies.
When I spend thousands of dollars on books, I consider it a self-investment. After all, the person most likely to get me where I want to be is me. In books, I have the opportunity to access the knowledge of a thousand lifetimes. People say that reading is not the same as real-world experience. I agree, it’s not the same. But it’s just as important. There are s