Category Archives: lifewriting

The Salty Path of Adding Fiction to Memoir

Posted on July 13, 2025 by moonbridgebooks

Memoirs are based on reality—your reality as you remember it. Don’t make up (lie) about important things, partly because somebody will know or find out and then people wonder if they can trust anything else you wrote. Not to mention, … Continue reading →

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Writing memoir and life stories: Not just what happened

Posted on May 25, 2025 by moonbridgebooks

When writing your stories, don’t make them a laundry list of what happened and when. That’s important, but there’s more to the stories than that, especially if you want to make them more interesting. You are the main character of … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month: Reminder, poetry can be memoir

Posted on April 6, 2025 by moonbridgebooks

For anyone who likes to write poems, know that you can create a memoir using poems. You can write about your life using poems. Or, you can simply include poems in your memoir or lifewriting, mixing them in with prose. … Continue reading →

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