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Writing Memoir is Trippy
I’m working on my first book-length memoir piece and it has been an interesting experience so far.
It’s turning myself into a character in a book. If it was a fictional story, I’d be considering whether the story should be told from my point of view. People might be more interested to read it from a different person’s perspective. If it was possible it’d be interesting to have different sections be from different characters’ points of view, kind of like The Poisonwood Bible.
I only truly know my point of view though.
There are parts where where I’m not necessarily the most influential character, but those events are important to my story anyway. If it was told from anyone else’s perspective it would be an entirely different story.
Most of the people are not clearly good or clearly bad, including myself. Depending on who reads it, they might describe me as the hero or the villain.
One of the themes that’s emerging as I write is the idea that “theater is real.” Before most of the exciting parts of my memoir I was a theater major, pretending to go through intense things. Things that I would actually be going through just a few years down the line.
Many of the things I’m writing about are from times I was so emotional I was a bit out of my mind. That’s part of what makes it…
