Finding the Title of your Memoir
Finding the title of your memoir might help you start writing it, because it gives you a central theme for the memoir.. In order to find a title, you may need outside guidance in the form of either a writer or a friend whom you know to make keen observations.
This client fancied himself, and most likely was, a smart real estate tycoon from New York. There was a kind of swagger about him, from his walk to his talk. During our interviews, I observed to him at one point, “It looks like the people around you put you on a pedestal.” Without so much as a blink, he said, “I earned the pedestal.”
I knew I had the title of his memoir as I chuckled at the great find of the day.