Truth can be a sticky wicket in memoir. It is essential to the craft but it can be hard to write.
On June 21 I presented on this topic for the Redwood Writer’s Club in Santa Rosa.
I looked at truth from several angles and showed new ways of handling it in memoir. Topics included:
- truth vs fact
- exact truth and emotional truth
- writing for yourself and writing for publication
- methods for writing hard truths
- revealing family secrets
- liability and defamation
The video of my talk is here. I hope you learn a lot from it! To skip meeting technicals and start at the talk, forward the video to counter # 04:20.
