I feel the irresistible impulse to write about my life, but because I don't seem to have learned very much from life, nor have I any profound ideas to share, my writing is boring.
I have read many books about writing, especially memoir writing. I know the expectations of the genre. I know the basic mechanics of writing and plot, characterization, theme, etc. I'm great at helping other people improve their memoir writing, but for some reason I can't improve my own.
I have been trying to figure out why, and I think the problem is that I don't have any life lessons or universal themes for the reader. I'm not quite sure why I feel such a compulsion to write, when I essentially have nothing to say, but I do, and I am not happy with the idea of just writing for myself. I want to communicate with the world! But I need something to tell them, first.
What have you learned from your life experience? How would you communicate that in a personal narrative? Most importantly, how does the process of extracting meaning from experience work? Maybe there's something I'm not doing. |
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