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W e l c o m e Writing Your Memoir-Autobiography A d m i n i s t r a t i o n Administration Fire Exits / Miscellaneous Rest Rooms Introductions: Rod Holley Rod@merlin.ws Coaches Students: Name


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Writing Your Memoir-Autobiography

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  • Fire Exits / Miscellaneous
  • Rest Rooms
  • Introductions:
  • Rod Holley

Rod@merlin.ws

  • Coaches
  • Students:

 Name  PC & Word Experience?  Started or Plan to Write?

Administration

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  • Memoir vs Autobiography

 Hybrid: Memoir-Biography

  • Autobiography Outline
  • Memoir Outline
  • Word Functions to Use
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Seminar Topics

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Autobiography:

  • Usually done for famous people
  • Factual chronicle from birth to current
  • Written in First Person narrative
  • Formal language style
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Memoir vs Autobiography

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Memoir:

  • Story of a specific event or time period
  • Facts, emotions and descriptive

imagery

  • Written in First Person narrative
  • Informal and vernacular language
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Hybrid-Autobiography:

  • Stories from birth to current time
  • Facts, emotions & descriptive imagery
  • Written in First Person narrative
  • Formal, informal & vernacular language
  • Includes some images to support story
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Memoir vs Autobiography

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Do Not’s:

  • Do Not make yourself “perfect”
  • Do Not write to satisfy others
  • Do Not wait to start
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Memoir vs Autobiography

Do’s :

  • Do tell the truth
  • Do be as descriptive as possible
  • Do relax & have fun with your memoires
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Autobiography

  • Create an outline

 Use handout sample to get started

  • Talk with others to get their perspectives
  • Research your facts, if not known

 Do not spend too much research time

  • Do not need to write in sequence
  • Do relax & have fun with your memoires
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Memoir

  • This is a non-fiction story
  • Create an outline

 Use the Three Act structure  Use handout sample to get started

  • Write about your feelings & emotions
  • Include others reactions and emotions
  • Be as descriptive as possible with people,

places, actions, reactions & emotions  Create an imagery for the reader

  • Do relax & have fun with your memoires
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Hybrid Memoir-Autobiography

  • Non-fiction stories of your life from birth

to the current time

  • Create an outline
  • State the facts but write about your

feelings & emotions

  • Be as descriptive as possible with out

getting boring with too many details

  • Create an imagery for all stories
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The Use of Images

  • Images are not normally used

 Your document, do what you want

  • Use images sparingly to support story

 Caption all images used

  • Not a scrapbook or photo album
  • Consider digital show or photo book in

addition to document

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Functions to Use in Word

  • Decide on type styles, format & layout
  • Modify Word defaults for consistency
  • Automatically create Table of Content
  • Automatically create Table of Figures
  • Automatically create an Index
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An Alternative to Writing

Not part of this seminar but: Use a video camera, iPhone, etc. to record your stories