What advice do you have for someone who is starting a memoir? What's the difference between memoir and autobiography? Is the craft of writing memoir different from writing fiction? How do I structure my memoir?

When we set out to revise our work, we often enter the process with an agenda: Is it good enough? How can I make it better? Why can't I get this section to work? We forget that deep reading is an essential part of rewriting.

Have you ever had the feeling that the story you're writing is already there?

Our lives are made of overlapping narratives - some invented, some inherited, some remembered. Memoir writing is a journey; the facts are just the beginning.

Connie Josefs - writer, teacher, memoir coach - talks about writing memoir, coaching writers, developmental editing and the joys of writing after 50.