Memoir Project – a big challenge but manageable

Libraries, newspaper archives, yearbooks, personal journals, photos from an attic collection, elementary and high school projects, a bundle of old love letters, etc. are the required data sources available to the prospective memoir-writer, the memorist.

These materials  can be blended into a set of informative, amusing, emotionally revealing and precious stories, which describe key life events from the treasures of yesteryear. In effect, these remain the building blocks that fashioned the foundation of the writer’s character and personal motivations.

Nothing is ever easy as we plod through life’s storehouse of disassembled data

The next sections are included to share with the reader some common frustrations that this writer encountered in gathering information from established literary sources, such as public libraries, newspaper archives and local school records. Patience and dogged persistence seem to be required attributes for a writer bravely jumping into these,  sometimes, murky waters.

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