By Allison K Williams How do you “show” when you just don’t know? First-person POV in both memoir and fiction demands emotional truth—but what happens when the main character doesn’t (or can’t) know what happened, yet you still need a powerful scene? Memoirists may need family stories, information from people they’re estranged from or who […]

Reconstruction: Writing the Unknown As If It’s Real Makes Stronger Scenes