Memory+Writing+Ideas

=Explorations in Memoir Writing=


 * **Piece/Exploration** || **Territory to Explore** ||
 * Artifacts || Think of treasured things that you have, collections, a talisman, or special item. If you can, hold the artifact and recall the special time, place, person, or event associated with it. ||
 * Family || Write about stories that your family tells about each other. Consider “family characters,” rituals, birth order, roles and responsibilities. ||
 * Ethnicity, Race, Culture || Consider experiences you have had with racism, overcoming barriers of culture, feeling like an outsider, or overcoming some barrier of culture ||
 * Difficult Times || Consider times when your life was in crisis, when you had family problems, failing health, uncertainty and doubt ||
 * Uses of language || Consider experiences of bilingualism, learning another language, unique speech or slang ||
 * Parents || Relationships, individual quirks, tensions, joys, intense times, habits, sayings, appearance ||
 * Turning Point || Describe a major turning point in your life, before and after stories ||
 * Earliest Memories || What is the first thing you remember? ||
 * Danger || Have you ever felt your life to be in danger? ||
 * Trouble || Have you ever had an encounter with the police? ||