Memoir Writing Isn’t for the Weak

Mia Hayes
4 min readAug 12, 2021

Knowing your story and telling your story are different things

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I’ve been a published author since 2010, writing first as a ghostwriter then as a Young Adult author followed by women’s fiction, and finally, memoir. While all of my books have proven challenging at points, none were more so than my memoir. It was both difficult to write and to share with the world because unlike my other work, it chronicled…

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Mia Hayes

40-something trying to live several lifetimes at once. Stay-at-home author, mom, and wife.