If You Want People To Read Your Memoir, Don’t Hide Your Worst

No one wants to read how great the writer is as they swashbuckle their way through throngs of idiots.

L.L. Kirchner
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readNov 30, 2022

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If you like memoirs where the main character always does the right thing, this article is not for you. This reader, however, loves a flawed hero, especially in a true story. Maybe that’s why I…

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