Are You Writing a Memoir or Autobiography
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- Are you writing an autobiography or memoir? One of these is likely to be read by a lot more people than the other, so it’s important to know the difference!
Watch and Enjoy!
Kelly
Key Moments in this Episode
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1:28 What is an autobiography?
2:19 Will anyone read your autobiography?
3:31 What is a memoir?
5:00 Why more people will read your memoir vs your autobiography
6:03 Publishing phrase: the book “knows its audience”
6:24 Great memoir examples
8:35 What’s great about a memoir?
9:41 Final question for you
Important Resources:
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Be sure to grab a 30-minute writing exercise on choosing themes for your memoir here: bit.ly/3GBSMyk
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Thank you, Kelly! I have enjoyed watching your videos since starting with the Hayhouse writing courses. I appreciate your explaining the difference between an autobiography and a memoir. I am writing an autobiography for my family to read about my life but it will not be published. I am intrigued by the idea of writing a memoir. I spent 22 years in the U.S. military special operations arena and want to share my story of what it was like as a young Latter-Day Saint young man who yo-yo'ed between the Christian world I believe in and the military world in which I lived. I hope it might help others who might be trying to figure out the balance.
That sounds like a fascinating memoir idea. We're so glad that you're recording your story for your family to have!
THANK YOU for these informative videos! SO SO Helpful! Memoir now, Autobiography for kids and generations forward later in life! TY!
Great plan! And you are so welcome 💙
Thanks for this explanation! I was confused about how to present my story but understand now that Memoir is the best way to go.
Wonderful! We're glad you have that clarity now!
Loved this training. Wayne Dyer's book "I Can See Clearly Now" is a memoir, right? Loved that he wrote it before he passed. I am writing a memoir. I am happy to find out that I can write another one about another theme. This helps me move forward. Thanks!
Yes! Write multiple memoirs! There are many authors that do this.
Thank You Kelly... I am writing a memoir and I better understand what it is, I smile...
That's great! 💜
I just found out I'm a memoir writer. I just came up with about 6 different memoirs to write. I really forgot how much I love stories as a child. I love hearing storytime and telling stories
Wonderful! Happy writing!
A memoir would be best for me I think. Growing up in a rural farming background, took up tennis to get out of the house. Studied sport science before it was popular; but it took me to 52 countries; and a coaching Hall of Fame. Much more, but it’s about constantly improving your brain’s behavior patterns to not simply accept the hand you’ve been dealt. Thoughts?
Memoir sounds like a good fit!
Kelly, I LOVE this video thank you! So helpful! I am drawn to both genres and so happy to be clear on the difference and that we can write many memoirs! You are so AWESOME thank you!
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching and leaving such a lovely comment!
Kelly, I've shared this with eight women who are all working on memoirs or autobiographies.
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing.
Love your work Kelly and always thankful for your precious tips ⭐
You are so welcome!
Thank you. Now I m clear about writing my autobiography.
Wonderful! So glad you have that clarity now.
I'm working on my memoir now. I plan to self-publish it by the end of the year.
That's great!
yes, got it. Memoir appears to me to be a focused time good/bad in life. My experience is an extreme one all true and could be a text for Criminal Justice class.
Sounds like you have a story that wants to be told!
Your videos make me wish to begin writing. 😊
💛🎉
Memoir! (Glad I'm allowed to do more than 1😂)
Absolutely! Dani Shapiro has written many beautiful memoirs, all will different themes.
Thank you! ❤
You're welcome!
Hey Katie thanks for sharing another great informative video!
I just sent a message through to your website about asking for advice in taking the next step to getting my memior published.
Perfect! We're excited to help you with your memoir!
My mother is at the end of her physical journey, and I wrote a heartbreaking story about what our conversations were based on inside a quiet Mexican cafe at 6am last Sunday morning. She later read what I had posted on my blog page about that morning and shared it on her social media outlet. I've never met or heard of someone's life being or match how bad she had it, and that one post shared was merely an emotional scab that doesn't even scratch the surface of it. My mother's life was so rancid it made me question my spirituality, people, and my future because of how someone could be dealt a bad hand in life from birth? I hadn't touched Chocolate Milk since I was nine years old after what she told me; I couldn't even see chocolate milk without my heart skipping a beat or fighting back the urge to cry up to when I was 30 years old, so my question is if I write about her life who is still breathing what would that be labeled as? Thank you for your time if you got to the end, great video I just need to know a little more.
Thank you for sharing. If you're writing about her life, it would be considered a biography.
To be honest, I'm still undecided. I've got a great idea that I'm finally working on, but it's more a non chronological series of funny, emotional, sad & scary anecdotes from my half a century on this mad rock. I'd lean more towards it being a memoir but there isn't really a theme for it to follow. For now I'm just getting the draft story down & will just take it one day at a time
That's a great plan. Just keep writing and get it all out.
Memoir definitely, and multiple.
Perfect! Thanks for watching!
I love it if she can see my writing and letting me know if I should write 📝 a memior 😊
Hello! Kelly no longer edits books herself. If you're interested in working with one of our amazing editors, you can book a call with us here: knliterary.com/schedule/
Thank You !
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
@@knliteraryarts I want to write a book about being born premature and be a iep kid
memoir!
Could transformational be a combination of the two? Or would it simply fall under autobiography? Thanks 🙂
We work with a lot of authors who are writing what we call a "Teaching Memoir." We have an example of what this kind of book would look like in our outline templates: resources.knliterary.com/3-Classic-Book-Outlines
Kelly, i love The choice by Edith Eger. Is that a memoire or an autobiography?
That one is a memoir 💜
Memoir
Wonderful!!
I prefer to read memoires but i love Obama s biography more than his memoire about his presidency
You'd love Michelle Obama's Becoming!!!💘
What if I want to do both would it need to be done in two books?
It depends on what you end goal is. If you want to sell books, you might write your autobiography mostly for yourself and you family and a memoir to market publicly. If you don't care about sales, everything could go into one book.
@@knliteraryarts how do you know your life story will be interesting?
❤memoir
Wonderful!
Well you just bust my bubble watching this video. Here I am beginning to write my autobiography, and I'm on page 30 thinking that this story might be good enough for a movie and you saying people will probably not even read the book lol.
Absolutely anything is possible! We're just trying to share perspective from the publishing industry to set authors up for success. Your story needs to be told!
Memoir
Wonderful!