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Do you have three hours today?

Do you have three hours today to create the most treasured gift you can pass along to your grandchildren and their grandchildren?

That is the amount of time you will need to write a mini-memoir using a method I developed for the class I teach at a California Community College.  This method is proven and works every time. 

By following the guidelines and detailed examples in the handbook I use in the class, Write Your Memoir in One Day, you will learn how you can write a real memoir--even if you have not written anything longer than a grocery list in ages or even if English was your worst subject in school.  And all it will take is 3 one-hour sessions writing about your past.

But you may, in fact, find yourself spending more than three hours writing your memoir--because it is so much fun!

Before I tell you more about Write Your Memoir in One Day, I want you to know right upfront that this is not one of those fill-in-the-blanks books. Filling in blanks is simply not the same as a real written memoir. Those book simply lack the richness, the depth that a real memoir has.

Write Your Memoir in One Day is different.  It teaches you a easy-to-understand way to write a real memoir--one that really sounds like you and tells the true story of your life--quickly and easily.  

At the end of the first class my students (90% are non-writers, over age 50) are amazed at what they have accomplished in such a short time.  You will be, too.

So you have those three hours, but where to begin?

What I hear most often from my students is that they do not know where to begin their memoirs.  They have lived busy lives or quiet lives or crazy wild lives--and often feel lost about how to start telling about it all.

"Should I start with my earliest memories?"  

That is the question I am asked most frequently. The answer is in Write Your Memoir in One Day, but I will give you the answer now.  It is "No."  The reason why is simple: Your earliest memories are probably fragments. To write a real memoir you want more than fragments, you want a narrative that tells your story and answers questions about how you made decisions in your life.  

You will be telling your true life story, telling about what is and was important to you as your life has unfolded.  

You get clear step-by-step instructions and examples to make writing your memoir almost effortless. 

With this concise and to-the-point thirty-six page downloadable e-book guide in your hands, you will follow detailed, how-to instructions to write about your life memories from your teen years to today.  (You can also order the 59 page book I use in my class.  More about this below.)

You will learn:

  • The best way to start your memoir.  Read about my special proven technique that breaks down any doubts or hesitations about how and where to begin.

  • The importance of your life-decisions and turning points.

  • How to capture the "spirit of the times" during the years when you were young.

  • Tips for writing about your family and friends as they were then.

  • Which details are important--and which you should handle with kid gloves.

  • How to write about unpleasant episodes, such as divorce.

  • Who you should tell about your memoir and who you definitely should not.

  • How long a real memoir should be.

  • What you should add to your memoir in this digital age.

  • How a memoir differs from an autobiography.

You will learn how to publish your memoir

Then once you are done, you can simply take your finished memoir manuscript and stick it in an envelope with your name on the outside and consider that "published".

But why settle for an envelope stuffed with sheets of paper when you can have a hard-cover book of your memoir these days.  A book that could last for hundreds of years!

You will be astonished to learn about the inexpensive resources available now to create a beautiful, full color memoir to pass along to your family.  

So I include a chapter on how to privately publish and copyright your memoir whether it is long or short.  And, believe me, even a short memoir should be copyrighted and I tell you why. 

Better yet, you will learn how to officially copyright your memoir for free.

You will learn how to have it printed locally or how to use the editorial services of America's largest publishers or take advantage of POD publishers.  

And what precise steps to take to pass along your manuscript to your descendants and avoid having it accidentally destroyed.

You will get detailed instructions and resource lists for both print and online publishing.  You will learn which online publishers are truly the best--and which to avoid like the plague!  

Do not leave your descendants asking questions about you, wondering who you were.

Now is the time for you to write a memoir that will tell your grandchildren and their grandchildren about you, your life experiences and answer questions they may have about how you lived and what choices you made.  

Your memoir will be like a personal private letter to the future directly from you.  A letter to people whose parents are not even born yet--but they will be related to you.

You will become the Very Important Ancestor, the one they remember and talk about--even a hundred or two hundred years from now.   

 Give the gift that will last for generation after generation-- 
the memories of your life.
Do it now before another day passes by.

Order Write Your Memoir In One Day now for only $9.95 (USD).  You can download this e-book immediately. No waiting.  You can start writing your memoir today!

 

Or order the 59 page book I use in the classroom.  Send a check or money order for $12.95 plus $2 shipping to:
Carol Lightwood 
535 South Los Robles Ave. #4, Pasadena California 91101.  

Or send me an email and I will bill you for the book and shipping through your Paypal account.

 

Write Your Memoir
in One Day

 

 

Carol Lightwood

 

 

 

 



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About The Author
Carol Lightwood, a Smith College graduate, teaches a memoir writing class at a Southern California Community College. She has worked as a freelance journalist and award winning writer.  

 

 

 

 

What people are saying...

"I never thought I could write a memoir until I read this. It showed me how to start and what were the best things to write about.  It really is easy."

Karen - Los Angeles
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"Who has time to write a memoir -- I'd said that to myself for years.  But I wrote mine in less time than I imagined"
Diane - Santa Rosa
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"I just gave a copy of my memoir  to my granddaughter for her birthday and she loved it!  Thank you."
Crystal - Las Vegas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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