Memoir Star: Start Telling Your Life Story

Do you have a story to tell? With the help of this book, Memoir Star, you can start right now. All you have to do is get started. And you're not alone. You have the best help in this process. Two runaways who became fierce warriors for children will be your friends and guides. They will show you how they did it, how they bared their souls.

Once you get started telling some of your stories, you, too, will notice a peaceful feeling settling over you and you will have renewed strength. A doctor can't cure what ails you unless you tell her/him about it, right? Similarly, you can't really understand what you went through, where you came from, what made you who you are, and what special gifts you have to share now unless you begin to look back and inside yourself.

Here is a simple step-by-step plan to help you draft your memoir using prompts to guide you. Respond to one prompt a day, or skip around, responding to whatever prompt grabs you. It's all up to you. The important thing is to just get started. A Memoir Star is about to be born and that's you.

Erika Karres, Ed.D. has taught in public schools and on the college level for thirty-five years. She is an award-winning educator, speaker, and author with a heart-wrenching personal story. Erika and her family survived World War II and the aftermath of poverty, starvation, and shame. Susan Bowman, Ed.S., LPC is a licensed professional counselor who, at fourteen, ran away from home and battled homelessness. By age nineteen, she was divorced with three children and had to depend on welfare as her only means of financial support. Through perseverance she worked her way out of poverty and through college.