Memoir- “Records of events or history written from the personal knowledge or experience of the writer, or based on special sources of information.” (Oxford English Dictionary)
Biography- “A written record of the life of an individual.” (Oxford English Dictionary)
Do you have a preference of biography over memoirs or vice versa? Why?Do you think an individual can honestly write a biography of themselves? If you were to write one, which would you choose? Have you ever sat down and written your life/experience into a character of any story you were writing?
So STOP SKULKING and make your voice heard!
I prefer to read a memoir. I know it is a telling of a story really from that person’s perspective of their life, but frankly that’s what I’m curious about an individual’s personal life experience.
By: Rosie on May 4, 2007
at 1:12 pm
Fiction.
What do you mean, that’s not an option???
My life winds up in my fiction all the time. Look over my outtakes; I can tell you what inspired some of them like Buying Chicken or This One’s For Us Girls, or even Green Hair Week (okay, that wasn’t real-life inspired) or The Soy Sauce Trilogy.
Other people? No, thanks. This is MY fiction; you all should only read and love it.
*wink*
By: Susan Helene Gottfried on May 4, 2007
at 7:29 pm
Rosie- I’m with you. I prefer memoirs. I like the idea of getting the logic behind actions and the emotional aspect far more than the time line of a biography.
Susan- Fiction is great but sometimes I need a little change and that’s when memoirs come in.(Not that I read them often.)
By: scooper on May 9, 2007
at 11:59 am