What every memoir writer should know about finding details in a story
First published July 2017: This article has been updated and improved.
If I told you a story about a father helping to deliver his daughter in a hospital car park at night, you might think it an uncommon event.
It I then told you that it was Father’s Day and this dad had to hold the torch for the midwives while the baby was delivered in a matter of minutes, you might think it was pretty interesting.
Now what if I told you that this father was actually himself born on Father’s Day and that his last child was born on Mother’s Day, you might think I was making the whole story up!
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