Larry Kunz asked Scott Berkun:

I'm impressed by the openness and candor of your writing in Ghost of My Father. Were you tempted to play it safe, to not reveal so much? If so, how did you overcome the temptation?

Scott Berkun Hi Larry. The very idea of a memoir is openness and candor. It'd be a mistake to writing in this form without going all the way - to play it safe as you say could have been achieved by writing it as a novel where I could change things and have no obligation to be based in what really happened, but I like truth. I like the challenge of writing about the truth, or the truth as I understand it. I read many memoirs (dozens) to study how the form works, and what approaches work and don't work in writing about ones own life.

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