- First time playing in front of an audience
- The first time I recorded music
- My first house show and the relationships that followed
- Falling in love (sappy) and getting my heart broken (sappy)
- Whats going on with me right now (internal dialogue about my life at this moment – might be to much to disclose)
- My childhood (how certain behavior arose and how they changed over time)
- INTERGRATING ALL THE IDEAS ABOVE INTO ONE COHESIVE NARRATIVE
I think that talking about your music and the way it makes you feel would make an excellent choice! Integrating all of it would be a lot to comprehend. Find what is so special about music to you and what lessons you have learned from making music. The hard work, dedication, and time commitment for music are intense, yet teaches you so much about yourself and gives you life lessons…expand on the life lesson you get from your music making!
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Jake, the memoir is a form of writing that encourages the writer to try to gain understanding of an experience that changed us irrevocably, and bring it to some greater sense through the writing. In addition to the ideas you note here, be sure to consider aspects of important experiences that might bubble up through your lyric essay, or your photo essay, or your memory box exercises. There may fragments of these story ideas that show up in each of these blog activities.
Integrating all of the above ideas might bring in too much for a short memoir piece. Perhaps the “firsts” you mention in terms of your relationship with music (both performing and recording) could tie together a meaningful memoir. From the “firsts” you can flash back (in terms of how you got to that first) and also flash forward in terms of what this experience means to you now.
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