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Truth and Craft: The Memoir Contract — Homework
Practice the difference between honest shaping and invention in true stories.
- 1.Is compressing two boring hours out of a true story dishonest? Why or why not?
- 2.Is inventing a dramatic conversation that never took place, just to improve the ending, within the memoir contract?
- 3.Rewrite this line to be honest about memory's limits while still using dialogue: "My coach said, 'You are making a huge mistake.'"
- 4.Apply the memoir-contract test to one scene in your own draft: can you defend every event as something that genuinely happened?
- 5.Name one place where you chose to compress time in your own true story, and explain why the cut time did not matter.
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