Month: December 2025
3 Essential Elements for Writing a Powerful Memoir
Discover the first three essential elements Carolyn V. Hamilton identifies for writing a powerful memoir: story, sensory description, and scene-building. Learn how incident incidents, vivid details, and well-structured scenes can transform personal memoires into compelling narrative. Part of Lorenzo Pablo Martinez’s Writing Craft series.
Important Parts of a Successful Memoir
Memoir is one of the most intimate forms of storytelling. It invites readers not only to witness what happened, but to feel what it meant. In The 5 Important Parts of a Successful Memoir, writing coach Carolyn V. Hamilton offers a blueprint that resonates deeply with the work many of us strive to do: turning […]
Characters in your prose
Writing Character in Memoir vs. Mystery Fiction When we sit down to write, the word character means very different things depending on whether we’re telling our own story or inventing someone else’s. Understanding that difference can sharpen our prose and deepen our reader’s connection. Characters in Memoir: Living People on the Page In memoir, your […]
LORENZO PABLO MARTINEZ 