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IWW
Practice-W Exercise Archives
Exercise: Memoir - I remember
These exercises were written
by IWW members
and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its
members.
You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that
you found
them at the Internet Writers Workshop
(http://www.internetwritingworkshop.org/).
Prepared
by: Alice Folkart
Posted on: December 21, 2008
Reposted on: July 25, 2010
Reposted on: July 1, 2012
Reposted on: February 9, 2020
Reposted on: December 10, 2023
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Exercise: In 400 words or less, write a first-person piece centering on
a remembered person, event, or feeling.
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Your memoir doesn't have to be strictly true, but should be based on
fact. You can 'embroider' or 'heighten' the event and characters. You
could write from your own point of view, or from the point of view of
someone else.
This kind of piece will be most successful when the author provides
specific details, and makes good use of the narrator's senses of
smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch.
We see this sort of thing all the time in magazines and newspapers, so
good ones are often highly publishable.
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In your critique, tell the author what's good about the sub, but then
suggest ways in which it might be improved. Does the memory seem true
to you? Why or why not? If characters are involved, are they well drawn?
Is the setting handled well? Comment on any aspect of the writing that
strikes you as needing to be done better.
Web site created by
Rhéal Nadeau and
the administrators of the Internet Writing Workshop.
Modified by Gayle Surrette.
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