Write a memoir draft.

SINCE PUBLICATION OF THE MEMOIR PROJECT, my irreverent little book on how to write memoir, there has not been one day that I have not wanted to tweak it, adding a small thought or a phrase to what I published in its pages. And why not? Every day I learn another thing or two about this great art of writing what you know. Just today it was something new about how to write a first draft.

Here it is: Your life is a pantry, but to write about it you must choose one feast at a time for which to cook. This came to me while speaking to one of my memoir coaching clients who was wrestling, really struggling, with getting on with a book. Perhaps we’ve reviewed the same opening pages together five or six times now. I’ve got to get her to move on. She wants to move on. And so the pantry metaphor was invented.

he is honest with congress and america about the difficulty of the war ahead.

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the tone of the passage is sympathetic to the forbidden love of romeo and juliet. the nurse plays a significant role in the play. she is responsible for making their meeting again possible. additionally, there is a sense of warning in the choice of words of the nurse. she seems to be authoritative when she calls romeo "scurvy knave", and at the same time the fact that she addresses to him as "sir" reflects respect. the nurse is "vexed", this word describes her confused state of mind. on the one hand, she finds romeo a fine and eloquent man, but on the other, it is thought that man's nature forces men to try to trick women.