Telling Your Story with Joyce Maynard

Moral Dilemma in Personal Narratives and Memoir: Is it our job to make the readers feel comfortable with our stories?


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Today, Joyce continues her conversation with Anne about one of the most important challenges for writers of personal narratives or memoir - whether or not we have a right to tell a story that involves other people who might be made uncomfortable by it. 

Is it our job to make the readers feel comfortable with our stories? 

Maybe sometimes, the job of a writer is to go to the uncomfortable place.

Sometimes, the job of a writer is to take the reader to a place where they simply feel. 

And sometimes, it is in going to the uncomfortable place, that we learn things that we've been needing to know. 

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