Memoir VS diary

A diary is a daily accounting of events and thoughts, usually informal in nature.

A memoir is a more formal composition, often intended for publication.


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A diary is a record of (unrelated) events in one's life whereas a memoir selects specific events or scenes and weaves them into a thematic story. You could write a memoir about your dog, for example, and another memoir about your mother-in-law. In either case you select certain stories or themes and weave them into a narrative.

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A diary tells what happens within a specific time frame and is written about specific things that have happened. It doesn't address the person to whom these things happened. Diaries are usually written as a record of events, transactions or observations kept daily or at frequent intervals.

Memoirs are not personal narratives. Memoirs are not single moments. Mem

In addition to what my friends said, I think you can have diary about future both memoir is always about past.

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AH020387 What is the difference between memoir and diary?

A diary is a personal record that is written possibly everyday. Because of its nature, it contains personal secret, emotion, etc. On the other hand, a memoir is a story of what happened to the narrator in the story, of which intention is to publicise.

A diary is a personal record that people write about their daily experiences and events of their daily lives from their own point of views. The writers can confess their secrect feelings and thoughts, which they dont want to share with anyone else, in the form of writing. Even though, it is intended to be kept as a personal document and not to be published, somtimes a diary is written with int

A diary is a record of personal events, experiences, feelings and thoughts bassed on their daily lives. It is meant be not exposed in public even though there are some cases that a diary is written with the intention for publication.

A memoir is smiliar to a diary. However, it may be less vivid and have a distorted point of the writers' view since it is recalled and retold the events th

A memoir is written sometime after the event that the person is writing about and may be even years after the event.

A diary is usually wrote in after a short time normally that evening or the day after and has a much shorter time span before the writer writes.