I think that one of the greatest difficulties in writing memoir is the need for not only inherent honesty, but a need for inherent brutality. Memoir requires that we, as writers, share moments of great darkness and pain in our lives. In order to fully explain these, we must share them. We must be able to give the reader the sensations of having been there, felt our pain, touched our agony. We must inflict that agony on them. A memoir of love and happiness might be a feel-good read, but it’s also a boring one.
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