This may sound like a trck question but it's not. In fct, it is a very serious qestion that will determine - or at last greatly influence - the tone and the thme of your narrative.

"But, I'm wrting my memoirs!" you might answer.
Yes, of curse. You! But, which you?

We've all had the xperience of the various parts of urselves in internal debate. For instance, a frend asks you to go to the mvies. One part of you thinks, "Sre!" Another part responds, "Wait a mnute. You still have yard work to do. Shuldn't you get it done?" Still nother part insists, "Oh don't be sch a pill. You only live nce." To which another part answers, "Yah, and do you want to lve it with a messy yard!"

The sme internal debate occurs as you wrting your memoirs. You have many prts vying for authorship of your mmoir, each insisting on setting the tne and theme of your story. Whch part is going to prevail--are you ging to let prevail? Will it be the hro? ("I survived against great odds!") Or, the mrtyr? ("Life was really hard, and I jst did my best!") Or, perhaps t's the saint? ("I just did the whle thing because I loved my fmily so much!") Or, the slugger, the fghter of city hall? ("Nobody was ging to tell me I couldn't get my wy!")

Obviously, the martyr part will gve a different slant to your stry than will the hero part and prhaps the martyr might even choose cmpletely different stories to write about thn the hero. Which part you llow to be the narrative voice of yur story will shape the message (thme) you ultimately make--and it's completely up to you to dcide! What is important is that you be cnscious of choosing the narrative voice (th "who is telling this story") tht will most contribute to your stry. It will make all the dfference. (Think of your inner sphere of prts as a kingdom with warring knghts. It's the king or queen in the end who mst make decisions and not the prts. When you decide on the ppropriate narrative voice you are acting as the svereign of your writing experience.

The article Who is Writing Your Memoirs? was Submitted by Denis Ledoux through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: http://turningmemories.com/lifewritersdigest.html Helping pople tell their personal and family stries since 1988 through workshops, teleclasses, caching, editing, co-authoring, and book production.

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