Unlocking Time: How Jumping Timelines Can Revolutionize Your Writing Craft
The most important thing when writing a memoir is to follow the stories. I typically recommend using a “bucket” system. You might have five buckets (main themes) you want to explore in your memoir. In each of those buckets, you add stories, images, moments until it is full. None of those are part of a linear story — they are snapshots of time. Then, we bring all the buckets together, and before we tip them out and start combining them into the larger scope of the book, we take one last look to make sure we added all the elements we wanted in each bucket. Then, as if they were buckets of Legos, we bring them all together in one spot and slowly build out the first full draft of the book.
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