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This past June, Sue released Fearless Confessions: A Writers Guide to Memoir. It’s one thing to write a memoir it’s quite another to apply the introspection and analysis necessary to write about the process and the genre. Sue William Silverman is the award-winning author of two book-length memoirs: Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You (University of Georgia Press, 1996) and Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction (Norton, 2001, and now in paperback). Sue likens each of these personas to masks–masks that bring clarity and definition as well as cover. In following each of these, you’ll probably expose a different aspect of yourself. We have life tracks, career tracks, health tracks, to name a few, upon which we can draw.

There is the author as child, college student, possibly world traveler in the years before settling down, wife, mother, friend…the list is endless. We are all complex beings with a multitude of life experiences to draw upon and share with our readers. If you have written (or contemplated writing) more than one memoir or memoir essay, you’re going to find Sue William Silverman’s post most interesting. Post #17 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler