Figure out the hot spots in your story
1st December 2016 | for Creatives | writing, storytelling, memoir, Elena Gorokhova |
"Figure out the hot spots in your story. What are the moments or events after which your life was no longer the same? If you write enough of these and put them in chronological order, this is your memoir."
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