If you are a beginner at writing it can seem a daunting task to tackle a memoir but if you are doing it for your children it need not be to tough. In fact it is simple.
When I was 21 my mother and I sat down with a bottle of champagne and opened my “birthday box”. In it was a selection of drawings, school reports, short stories, photographs, baby teeth and other bits and pieces from my 21 years on earth. Also in the box were letters from my mother and father written to me on the week I was born and the week I turned 1 year old.
After the birth of my first child this memory came back to me and inspired me to write (it doesn't take much to push me in that direction). I started to write letters to my baby in a beautiful leather bound book. I wrote little and often and when my second child came I began a second series of letters.
I hope that by the time my children have grown to be adults they will each have a memoir of their lives. I try to tell them about how their lives are going and about the lives of the people they love. I also add snippets about what is going on in the news and the world as I remember one of the exciting parts of my letters from my mother was that the Yorkshire Ripper was still on the loose.
So if the idea of writing a memoir appeals to you but you just can't stomach the amount of writing it entails then why not take a leaf from my book and write it as a series of letters for someone you love.
