Think Twice About Writing a Memoir

To write a memoir is to enter…a war zone--with yourself, with the ones you love, with the critics you may never meet. It is to lay your life on the line, or several lines. You may be ridiculed, harassed, taken down in the court of public opinion. Worse, you aunt may never speak to you again. You may be called upon to defend the form. Your sole protection will be the work itself--its integrity, its artfulness, its originality, and its capacity to entertain or seduce.

Beth Kephart, Handling the Truth, 2013