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Most people assume the hard part of a memoir is the writing. It isn’t. The writing is the part you can fix. The real problems arrive much earlier, and they’re much harder to solve with a red pen. What tends to fail is not the prose, but the premise. People arrive with a sequence of events. A career, a set of achievements, a list of things that happened in more or less the right order. The assumption is that if those events are set down clearly enough, something meaningful wil

Some lives are lived. Others shape outcomes far beyond the room. Those need to be written properly.