Writing About Yourself and Understanding Genre – Kingdom Winds Collective

I was using my cellphone to look for different Memoir Categories. I muddled around for a bit, because I was not using the best search terms. I’ve noticed during my Google Wonderings, the topic I am looking for often changes.

This article looks at three main genres for personalized and published nonfiction writing: autobiographies, memoirs, and collections of essays

Writing About Yourself and Understanding Genre

Out of the three genres, autobiographies and memoirs are the most difficult in which to decipher the difference, seeing as they both may reference childhood memories or organize chapters chronologically. 

These are works that are grounded in factual events, rather than emotional reflections or messages.

In comparison, a collection of essays is not organized by chapters to build upon a theme. It is an assemblage of 20-40 essays, each essay standing alone in memory or perspective. They do not have to be organized chronologically or even feature the same content, although it is helpful to categorize them under an umbrella for creative unification. 

Writing About Yourself and Understanding Genre – Kingdom Winds Collective

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