Writing Memoir

Leads

Descriptive Lead
Sensory details

Seeing
Hearing
Feeling
Smelling
Tasting

Paints a picture/sets the scene

Suspense Lead
Creates curiosity

What will happen next?

Question Lead
Invites reader to think about the events
that lie ahead

Narrator Lead
Introduces the reader to YOU!

Conflict Lead
Presents the central conflict to the reader
for immediate consideration
Dramatic

Thematic Lead
Hints towards what the theme/life lesson is

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What else do you add to a lead?

Figurative language
Simile/metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Personification
...

Sensory details
Emotion

Examples from our Readings

A MAN'S ALTER EGO is nothing more than his favorite image of
himself. The mirror in my room in the Windsor Hotel in Paris
reflected my favorite image of me--a darkly handsome young
airline pilot, smooth-skinned, bull-shouldered and immaculately
groomed. Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue
was not one of my virtues.
I fell in love with the minister's son the winter I turned fourteen.
He was not Chinese, but as white as Mary in the manger. For
Christmas I prayed for this blond-haired boy, Robert, and a slim
new American nose.

Group Work
Topic:
A day at school