Got an ancestry story or a memory that lives in fragments? Maybe a scent, a photo, a phrase? Today, I’ll show you how to take that spark and build it into a full creative nonfiction scene—mixing memory and research to tell stories that last.
How to Write a Scene From Memory and Research
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Great prompt, Lynn! I could “see” your grandfather! He “looked” at lot like mine but he rolled his own cigarettes carefully making sure to keep each tiny bit of tobacco in the thin, ivory-colored piece of paper that he fomed into a cigarette.