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What advice does Zinsser give to memoir writers? Provide evidence to support your answer, In How To Write a Memoir

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According to Zinsser ''as for to actually organize your memoir, my final advice is, again, think small. Tackle your life in easily manageable chunks. Don't visualize the finished product, the grand edifice you have vowed to construct. That will only make you anxious.''

Explanation:

William Zinsser's essay on ''How to Write a Memoir'' advises memoir writers on the best ways to write their memoirs. In this essay, he reiterates that as writers, they ''are the custodians of memory''. He further advises that when writing ones own family history, a writer should not ''try to be a writer''.

In the same essay, he emphasis that memoir writers should remember that they are the protagonist in their own memoir and ''the tour guide'' leading or directing readers in their works. He also stated that ''the strongest memoirs preserve the unity of unity of a remembered time and place''.

Zinsser also advised memoir writers to to include writing memoirs as part of their daily and normal lives which would help improve their writing and also help them in finding their own voice as he mentions that he did not find his voice till he was in his fifties when he wrote ''Writing about Your Life: A Journey into the Past''.

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