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    How to Write a Memoir in Three Days: A Memoir: The Long Weekend Review, #13
    How to Write a Memoir in Three Days: A Memoir: The Long Weekend Review, #13
    How to Write a Memoir in Three Days: A Memoir: The Long Weekend Review, #13
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    How to Write a Memoir in Three Days: A Memoir: The Long Weekend Review, #13

    By David Macpherson

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    So, you want to write a memoir, but are a little pressed for time?

     

    Well look no further! This is the memoir and how to book for you. It will show you how to write a memoir in three days. These are not big memoirs, but who wants overwritten stuff anyway. David will show you why you will want to write a three-day memoir and a let you know a little bit about how to do it.

     

    The Long Weekend Review is a eZine that allows the issue's writer to create anything they want, as long as it is written in three days.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Macpherson
    Release dateMar 20, 2021
    ISBN9781393453437
    How to Write a Memoir in Three Days: A Memoir: The Long Weekend Review, #13

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      How to Write a Memoir in Three Days - David Macpherson

      How to Write a Memoir in Three Days: A Memoir

      by

      David Macpherson

      Long Weekend Review Issue Thirteen

      How to Write a Memoir in Three Days: A Memoir

      Copyright 2021 David Macpherson

      All rights reserved.

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      Started March, 12, 2021 at 6PM

      Slide One

      How to Write a Memoir in Three Days

      This is the moment where I get up from my seat in the front row and take the podium. I smile slightly uncomfortably, as if to say, "I don’t know exactly what I am doing, but here we go and I might as well try my damnedest to make this thing work.

      The first slide is projected on the screen and I look at it with you, as if I was not the person to create it. Like I am just seeing this for the first time.

      When I do powerpoint presentations, I am one who always reads what is on the screen as if it is holy text. Like I am reading it for a group of people who might be illiterate so I feel the need to read it out for them.

      I will say out loud, How to Write a Memoir in Three Day. I am about to say more, but realize that the microphone is not working and no one can hear me. Can you hear me? is greeted with blank, bored expressions. I play with the microphone and wonder why no one can hear me. I am getting a little annoyed and my cool is totally blown. The microphone is shot. I have useless equipment.

      A tech guy comes and he looks even more annoyed than me and asks me if I actually turned the mic on and I tell him that of course I turned it on, how crazy do you think I am. Then the tech guy leans over and turns the mic on and everyone can hear me.

      I think about running out of the room and breaking down into embarrassed tears, but the ham in me reappears and reminds me that the show must go on. Actually, the show must start. And so it will. I start talking. Which is one of my favorite things in the world to do.

      When I am in front of a group of people I always am freaked out. Am I prepared enough? Do I have enough slides to fill up the time I have been given? What if everyone in the room is bored out of their mind? Will I overcompensate and start shouting and swearing and being out there just to get people’s attention?

      Powerpoint presentations are the worst thing that ever happened to discourse. There was a time in the 19th century when going to a lecture was a big entertainment. People loved going to these things. They went to them like we go to the movies or see a band. It was the cool thing to do. I imagine people getting concert t-shirts for the Ralph Waldo Emerson lecture they saw in Harford. Or those who were trading in bootleg wax cylinders of Mark Twain’s talk at the Elk’s

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