Friday, 10 January -- MEMOIR DAY

1,000 Word Memoir Due: Friday, 21 January, 2011
Typed, proof-read, margins, title, etc.

Next Friday: "Soft-Deadline" Next weeks work will go home with you for final revision and editing.

(January 13/14 is an additional Memoir Day devoted to peer sharing and revision.)

Your piece should have : EMOTION (It will be better -- and easier to write if your memoir has emotion)
Strong emotions (those that include embedded conflict which is vital for a story) include:
Fear
Sadness
Anger
Misunderstood (a good topic is where you can tell your side of the story)
Nostalgia (which is a kind of sadness)

MEMOIR TOPIC Title: _______________________
1. What happens?

2. Change

3. Motivating emotion

4. Telling detail (or two) / elements
Telling Detail -- that moment, event, object, etc. that helps make the shift or the emotion clear and dramatic
Elements are those landmarks in the story that take you from moment to moment in the story.

Generally it's easier to write a piece where the shift happens in one event; not to write about a change that happens over a period of time.