Beyond 10) Where to Find Me
Find me on my Substack — matthewkiell.substack.com What you’ll find on my Substack:11) Building on the Time Frame of My Memoir-Plus12) The Power of Storytelling
Monhegan panorama
“A figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat, small like a child, is sitting on the bench near the old signal bell, overlooking the cemetery, the meadow, the village, the harbor, and Manana.” — Monhegan Windows, Scene 50
10) My Ambitious AND Understated Memoir
Can one achieve both at once? {500 words — 3-minute read} A beta reader of A MEMORY MOSAIC called it “ambitious AND understated.” My ambitiousness came in creating a vast...
9) Your Ideal Reader
Focusing on that one person you are writing for to keep you motivated and on track {825 words — 4-minute read} You’ve decided to write a memoir. Perhaps you’ve gotten...
8) Who Is Your Audience?
A simple question that isn’t, but one to assess often as you write {940 words — 4-minute read} You’re writing a memoir, and this question comes up: “Who is your...
7) Present Tense vs Past Tense
{1,000 words — 4-minute read} The core story of my memoir, A MEMORY MOSAIC, is a 10-day trek in Nepal during the first 10 days of April 1980 and 6...
6) Inside Out — Creating the Structure of My Memoir
{900 words — 4-minute read} The most obvious inspiration for my memoir, A MEMORY MOSAIC, was the metaphor of the mosaic — taking many pieces, big and small, and fitting...
5) Evolution of a Cover & of a Guiding Metaphor
{1050 words – 5-minute read} Over a 2-year period of working on my memoir, A MEMORY MOSAIC, the metaphors that inspired me and drove me forward evolved. What inspired me...
4) You’re a Creative on a Mission
{600 words – 3-minute read} You’ve decided to create a memoir or a novel . . . or anything that’s on a grand scale requiring more than one big burst...
3) The Million-Word Book
{550 words — 3-minute read} For me, my memoir-plus, A MEMORY MOSAIC, is 1 million words long. No, this isn’t a tale of a sprawling, messy manuscript mercilessly sliced, diced...
2) Expanding on My Memoir
{465 words — 2-minute read} In late 2022, as I approached completing the first full draft of my memoir-plus, A MEMORY MOSAIC, and as I participated (and continue to participate)...
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