This month I’m featured on the National Association of Memoir Writers website,
https://www.namw.org/2024/03/polly-hansen-featured-namw-member/ There, you can read a synopsis of my memoir, A Minor, Unaccompanied.
Seeing the memoir synopsis in a different font, in a new setting made it seem foreign, and therefore helped me to see what is missing from it. The narrative is but a hull, the frame and shell that ignores the essence, the girl who lives inside that shell and what’s going on with her. The emotional arc is missing from the synopsis. That is the heart of any story, any memoir. I see now that I need to work that in as well, not just what happened.
Thank you so much, Linda Joy Myers, founder of The National Association of Memoir Writers for this feature opportunity. You can learn more about the association here: https://www.namw.org/about-us/