WRITING & PUBLISHING

To Fictionalize, Or Not to Fictionalize?

A key question for every memoir writer

Aimee Liu
3 min readJul 29, 2023

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Many, if not most, memoir writers at some point wonder whether they should write their first-person story instead as a novel, perhaps in third-person. These options represent two layers of separation from the foundational experience, so let’s take them one at a time.

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Aimee Liu

Author, Asian-American novels (Glorious Boy), nonfiction on eating disorders (Gaining), writing, wellness. Published @Hachette. MFA & more@ aimeeliu.net