{"id":2226,"date":"2017-05-28T00:29:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/28\/writing-tip-18-writing-from-hindsight\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:30:37","slug":"writing-tip-18-writing-from-hindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/2017\/05\/28\/writing-tip-18-writing-from-hindsight\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Tip: What does it mean to write from hindsight?"},"content":{"rendered":"
When you write your experiences, you might choose to tell your story from the point of wisdom in the PRESENT time.<\/p>\n
Though your experience was 10 to 50 years ago, the voice of the memoir allows you to speak from the point of full knowledge.<\/p>\n
Watch how Carol Anne Alexander, a South African professor does it in her life history i<\/strong>n Wild Hope. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Note how she begins many of her paragraphs.<\/p>\n It would be wonderful to say I had…<\/em><\/p>\n I had always been…<\/em><\/p>\n My mom later told me…<\/em><\/p>\n That night…<\/em><\/p>\n I remember asking…<\/em><\/p>\n On one particular winter evening…<\/em><\/p>\n My mind still holds the image of ….<\/em><\/p>\n It was not long before….<\/em><\/p>\n To use a metaphor….<\/em><\/p>\n But the emotional trauma left its mark….<\/em><\/p>\n Back to Writing Tips<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n