Creative non-fiction takes real life experience and crafts it into stories using all the techniques of fiction, whilst remaining true to the facts. One of the skills of fiction is characterisation, and when you are writing memoir, it helps to think of yourself as a character in the story.
Dani Shapiro, who has written several bestselling memoirs, says she doesn’t write about herself, but about ‘that girl,’ and Natalie Goldberg (Writing addresses her younger self in her memoir as ‘old friend from
