05.27.09

Should You Start Your Memoir at the Beginning? Not always.

The now-famous second line of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield reads, “To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born.” Now, David Copperfield is fiction, and fiction now written more than a century ago, but does that line interest you? If it were a memoir, would it inspire you to keep reading?

By Corey Michael Blake2 minute Read

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