: How long should a memoir be? I am writing my first memoir about my life as a christian and how affected I was by it as an empath and how I came to desire leaving it. Is there a minimum

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Don't judge your writing by some arbitrary word count. The only issue is whether the reader insists on reading all the way to the end. Leave out the parts that people skip.

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F1Krazy had a great point here relating to not being restricted to word count. If you are looking for something more numeric, this article recommends 65,000 on the low side and 90,000 on the high side. However, the article does mention that some people have short memoirs. Don't let word count kill your book. It only needs to be as long as needed.

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How long should a memoir be? The same length as any other piece of prose: exactly as long as it needs to be to tell the story you want to tell. No more, no less. Don't feel like you have to omit any important details to avoid your memoir being too long, and don't feel like you have to pad it out with unnecessary information to avoid it being too short.

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