Could Your Memoir Make a Difference in Someone’s Life?

You can’t know in advance who it will be!

What if you are thinking that there are a lot of other writers out there writing about experiences just like yours?

What if you want to write a story about overcoming a challenging experience that seems to you as if it’s “common?”

The reality is that everyone’s experience is personal.

Therefore, everyone’s experience is different.

For instance, your dysfunctional childhood may contain a similar thread to someone else’s dysfunctional childhood. But that thread may be only that you both had ”a dysfunctional childhood.”

One of you may have grown up in Los Angeles, and the other in London. Environments and cultural norms may be quite different, lending to each story being unique.

For instance, I grew up in a quiet Scandinavian neighborhood in Seattle, while one of my memoir clients grew up during a period of strong racial tension in Boston.

I once read a memoir and discovered I had several personal experiences similar to those of the author. While I really identified with what happened to her — I cried when I read the part where her father died, remembering when my own father died — her journey was completely…