Underneath your memoir, please include the following
A. Ask a co-pilot to your your memoir and answer these 3 questions
- What more do you want to know?
- What are you confused about? What am I not saying?
- What do you like?
B. Include context (setting, surrounding events influencing your memoir)
C. What is your purpose (To reflect, To question, to learn..... about _____ in order to have the audience realize / understand / know / ...)
D. How do you want to present yourself in the story (list 3 adjectives)
Example
My context - Greece 90’s economy about to go unstable, post communism
My purpose -
- To laugh at myself and the situations I got myself into
- To remind risk takers (with humor) that there is a reason “we don’t talk to strangers” just to be careful even when we think we are
- To suggest that we take risks, have adventure, but have caution with whom we trust, trust should be earned over time
I want to present myself as the protagonist
- Not the hero, but a side observer recapturing the craziness of what went down
- A supporter in the rescue
- A rational and reliable person who experienced fear and slowly learned to deal with that
- A naive person who has learned from my mistakes
I want to present Paul, my antagonist as
- Aggressive, arrogant, cantankerous, obsessive, a lunatic, lost, pompous, a bully, superficial, a parallel to mafia leaders
