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How to write my memoir? If you've ever asked this question, The Best Memoir will help you write the story only you can tell. Clear, direct, instructive, well-written, and engaging, this simple, succinct memoir guide will help you find your purpose and structure your experiences, improve your writing skills, and steer you away from the mistakes that will keep you from reaching your goal of a completed, publishable manuscript. To write the best memoir, you need help honing your craft: narrative plot structure, outlining, POV, scene setting, dialogue, active voice, show-don't-tell, character and story arc, and more. You also need a foundation of publishing, business, and legal information. But more importantly, you need deep self-awareness and the courage to honest about your less-than-perfect self: the real you. That is how to ensure your readers will believe, enjoy, and recommend your story: not when you cover up the living room furniture of your soul in sticky plastic and ask them to take off their shoes. Inside, you'll learn about: How to define memoir How to start a memoir and write a memoir outline Memoir writing techniques Writing to make an impact Writing to be understood, what works, and why How to write dialogue Writing to set the scene When to use active vs passive voice Mastering show vs tell Identify and make the most of your writing style Vision, revision, and writing your first draft Working with an author coach The path to writing the best memoir is often buried in mucky foliage. Let The Best Memoir become your personal pair of rubber hip-waders. A great resource for anyone who wants to write their memoir.

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Clear, direct, instructive, well-written, and engaging. -Cynthia Barlow, Four Fridays With Christina: Friendship, Death, and Lessons Learned by Letting Go From finding your purpose to structuring your experiences, this book will help you share the story that only you can tell. -Anne Janzer, Get the Word Out: Write a Book That Makes a Difference Boni Wagner-Stafford's simple, succinct manual will get you thinking and moving in your writing. The Best Memoir will help you see your work more objectively-anticipating the feedback of any good editor-and steer you away from the bigger mistakes that can set you back in your process, so you can reach your big, final goal of a completed, publishable manuscript. -David R. Morris, Hyponymous Consulting A great resource for anyone who wants to write their memoir. -C.A. Gibbs, The Picture Wall: One Woman's Story of Being (His) (Her) Their Mother

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Boni Wagner-Stafford is co-founder of Ingenium Books, a hybrid publisher of outstanding nonfiction. As a publisher, Boni also offers one-on-one author coaching to nonfiction authors, in particular memoir, and also in the sub-genres of business, self-help, personal development, and journalistic nonfiction. As an award-winning former Canadian journalist, Boni covered politics, government, social and economic policy, organized crime, and more. She later held senior management roles in government where she led teams responsible for media relations, issues management, and strategic communications planning. As an entrepreneur, Boni has muddied her hands in the trenches with one-page strategic plans, cash-flow forecasts, developing purpose and core values, franchise structures, sales targets, and marketing and differentiation. Boni has been at the controls of a helicopter, canoed in the wild backcountry of Northern Ontario, jumped out of an airplane, sang on stage with Andrea Bocelli and Christopher Plummer (not at the same time), and grew up skiing in the Rocky Mountains. She has lived in more than seventeen different cities/towns in Canada, Mexico, and France and spends as much time as possible on her sailboat, which is also named Ingenium. Learn more about us at ingeniumbooks.com.

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