For authors, memory techniques aren’t just about making life a little easier. Knowing the facts on which your work turns is different from just being able to look them up, and the easier it is to internalize information and allow it to mix and evolve, the better.
When it comes to writing, a good memory is a boon. You may need to remember previous events and character details for seamless storytelling, recall hard-won research, or store the entire history of a fictional world in your mind. In these ways and more, it’s to your advantage to enhance your memory.
Again and again in Steinbeck’s journals and letters, determination and doubt arise as topics. These, it seems, are the core of his writing experience and the main monsters he had to wrestle.
If you’ve been keeping up with our series of articles on ways famous authors can improve your writing, you’ll doubtless have noticed that a surprising number of them recommend writing longhand.
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