Jerry Waxler Memoir Writer

Jerry Waxler a writer of four books, self proclaimed hippy from the sixties looking for a way to understand his life turned to introspection which helped him shift his life's direction.  He detailed how writing his own memoir brought him from a discouraging perspective to a more hopeful perspective in his life.  From a man who studied Math and Physics using those skills to become a computer programmer, and technical writer.....at 50.....it left his life with some "holes"  He wanted to better understand himself and other people.  He went back to school and now has a Master's degree in counseling psychology learning more about the human mind and how to connect with other people.  He simply learned to understand people you need to listen and care and people will open up to you.  How you increase your power of mutual understanding you can learn through the art of storytelling.  He has used his skills to teach the art of memoir writing his own books, Memoir revolution, How to become a Heroic writer, Learn to write your memoir, and Thinking my way to the end of the world.  

        He took the time to teach us how to transform memories into stories.  First of all overcome your fears, your reluctance and your self-doubts.  Then take that and then turn your memories into a written story.  Remember to write everything down and after you have this accomplished organize your memories into a story and you can do this basing your story on your life's timeline.  You will need to transform your story with some dramatic tension the reason to have the reader want to read your memoir, add a theme to help convert your life's incidents into a story.  Add all of your life's stories mix in some tea leaves, sprinkle it with magic dust and get to work.  IF NOTHING ELSE YOU WILL HAVE A BETTER PERSPECTIVE ON YOUR LIFE AND LEAVE A MEMORY FOR YOUR PRESENT FAMILY AND THE GENERATIONS THAT ARE YET TO COME.