An Awkward Memoir

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So, I'm writing a memoir which one can think of it being essentially a blog-typed memoir. I started it off writing all in one shot, but I've found it easier to just put stories in their own separate files, and I'll just add to the bigger file later.

One problem.

How do I break apart my stories? Its nothing like Glass Castle, or anything, just think of it like taking all of your blog postings, and putting them in a book. I don't necessarily want to break up each story into its own individual section, I want to make it flow.

I think that all made sense? Can someone make sense of it? Hahaha
 

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So each 'blog-post' is sort of a story of it's own? How about grouping them by themes, or occasions, and having each 'section' as all the posts about that theme?
Or, think of them as little essays. Lots of journalists and columnists do collections of their shorter works, maybe this would work for you, with an over-arching frame being 'your life'.
 

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Yeah, thats what I was thinking about doing!.. Once I posted this I began thinking, haha.. Thanks for the feedback! :)
 

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Yeah, I'm definitely going to have to play around with it some.. I guess thats the benefit of doing what I'm doing - I have the ability to reorganize things quite simply