Guts By William Zinsser Summary

The advice from “How to Write a Memoir”, William Zinsser gives advice to people writing a memoir. Zinsser gives things like “Be yourself”, “it’s your story”, and “Think small” (2, 7, 27 Zinsser). This tells writers how to do it and what they should and should not do. In the memoir, “Guts”, Gary Paulson follows all of Zinsser’s advice. An advice Zinsser gives is be yourself he says this by, “Or it can be an informal family history…”(2 Zinsser). In “Guts” Paulson does follow this because of his view point. Paulson tells from an adult looking back, even though he is an adult. According to “Guts” it says, “…what I did as a boy...”(Paulson),which means he is telling from a younger perspective. The second advice Zinsser gives is speak freely,