12/21/2023 0 Comments Ilike to learnOf course being brave enough to write that way is another thing entirely! Hard stuff! I like hearing the truth, especially if it’s not pretty. I like it, but I like the soul-baring, truth-telling, gut-wrenching memoirs better. Currently, I’m reading Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy, but it hasn’t captured me like the other three. Oh, and I LOVED Kelly Corrigan’s The Middle Place. I loved Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions and Patty Kirk’s Confessions of an Amateur Believer. The truth about herself, her demons, her hopes, her angst. I love meeting someone at church or someone sitting next to us on a flight who has an amazing story to tell.Īnne Lamott is a great example of someone who was a nobody who dared to tell the truth. Yet, we are also joyfully surprised when we meet someone unexpected and unknown who has a story so good we want to know more. People enjoy celebrity memoirs because we like to discover the real person behind the image. Each time they pick up the book it’s like being invited out again. Then, if they are interested, it’s like a second date … and third … and fourth. We create a relationship as we respond to the readers’ questions of who we are right from the get-go. Memoirs are like taking our readers on a date. It’s a little more truth, a little more story, every day. And as we collect these stories, we figure out ourselves a little more. We don’t want people/books/authors/speakers giving us a list of ten points … we want to hear their stories. Winston Churchill said, “I like to learn, but I don’t like to be taught.” This is especially true for our generation.Īs I’ve connected with, and have written books for Gen Xers, I’ve discovered they (we) learn through story. I’m writing a memoir, but I’m not famous.
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