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muddy1
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memoir: written by you, is a little one short story about a time in your life. just covers one expirience really. autobiography: written by you, YOUR WHOLE LIFE STORY
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Memoirs and Autobiographies are similar in that they are both about our own life. Autobiographies tend to be sequential .. telling the story of our life .. from birth to current times. They are chronological. You expect to hear about childhood times .. right on up. Memoirs are more of a "slice" of our life. Could be one period of time (from this to that year) .. or one experience (a survivor of this .. or participant of that ...). Could pull from many experiences, years and anecdotes in our lives and weave them together showing a "theme" of helping others or dealing with abuse / disability / poverty or whatever. Both need to be "readable", else why would anyone want to buy or read them? But the forms are different and our own expectations are different when we sit down to read.
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