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This week I want to encourage you to dip into memories and memoir. Even though this veers from the more obvious platform series we\u2019ve been in, it may, eventually, reveal more about who you are and what you want your platform to be about. I believe it\u2019ll be time well spent.\n\nThink back to an event that seems small, yet feels packed with emotion. You don\u2019t have to fully understand it all. Just remember it. Something changed due to that event. It may have been subtle or seismic, but you emerged from it a different person.\n\nWhen you remember and then write these scenes or episodes or events, you are exploring the territory of memoir even if you aren\u2019t working on a long-form memoir project. As you compose these scenes from your past, you\u2019ll learn from them. Future readers may, as well, if these end up as essays or poems that could be submitted, but that\u2019s not the main reason to undertake this project. It\u2019s about mining for material in your own mind. And none of these ever needs to be published. They are first and foremost for your own personal growth.\n\nI wrote a short scene in this style that Tweetspeak Poetry published. It lives there under the Memoir Notebook category with the title \u201cWriting the Fragile."\xa0Click\xa0the link below to read it, or use the podcast player at the top of this page and listen to me read it.\n\nhttp://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2015/02/13/memoir-notebook-writing-fragile/\n\nThis memoir project, however simple and short-lived it may be for you, can reveal more than you expect\u2014you may not even realize the meaning of a piece until it\u2019s completed.\n\nI encourage you to write these scenes as a regular creative writing practice\u2014the practice of remembering. Compose them in a private writing journal or memoir notebook. You will likely turn out some of your best, most interesting material.\n\nMore importantly, you\u2019ll get to know yourself better. When you get the stories down, you can look at them, ponder them, and learn more and more about the writer\u2014the person\u2014you really are.\n\n\n\nClick on the podcast player above or use subscription options below to listen to the full episode.\nResources:\n\n \t\nMemoir Notebook: Writing the Fragile\n\n* * *\nYou can subscribe with iTunes,\xa0where I'd love to have you subscribe, rate, and leave a review.\n\nThe podcast is also available\xa0Stitcher,\xa0and you should be able to search for and find "Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach" in any podcast player.\n\n____________________\nIs your writing life all it can be?\n\n\n\xa0\n\nLet this book act as your personal coach, to explore the writing life you already have and the writing life you wish for, and close the gap between the two.\n\n"A genial marriage of practice and theory. For writers new and seasoned. This book is a winner."\n\n\u2014Phil Gulley, author of Front Porch Tales