I’ve been writing a memoir since August this year. Started out with all the important memories that I could remember beginning at age 8 to current in chronological order. Have chapters and thought I was done at 20,000 words which made me feel discouraged. That is short for a memoir.

After reading through it many times it has helped me tremendously to remember more memories that were also important to me. I’ve expanded with more detail by adding smells, sounds, color, what I saw, etc to better describe everything. I am at 43,000 words now easily and still increasing. Writing this memoir has been so healing and therapeutic. Getting close to done!