by David Colin Carr | Jan 20, 2014 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
20 January 2014 This week I received a career memoir that the writer has been working on for 38 years. I was skeptical when he told me it was the first of five volumes. The autobiography of famous leaders usually fits in one volume, even though autobiography needs a...
by David Colin Carr | Oct 8, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
If you write or read memoir, In the Body of the World will reshape what you think memoir can be or do. A lot of my memoir clients are writing about sexual abuse. And there is an enormous need in our culture for people to clear their souls of the distress of invasion...
by David Colin Carr | Apr 8, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
The challenge with memoir is to make it interesting to someone other than the writer. A memoir should expose the useful lessons, presenting them in a way that explores the inner territory as well as the universal. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is great...