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How Professionals Beat Writer’s Block
We’re breaking into spooky October (my favorite time of year) with tackling one of writer’s scariest foes: writer’s block. Many authors struggle with this, but like many shadowy monsters, the idea of the beast is worse than the actual creature.
How to Decide Where Your Memoir Ends
One of the common questions we get from our coaching clients and Memoir Method group is how to decide where your memoir ends. After all, in many ways, you’re still living the story. You’re not done learning yet, you have
What Published Authors Know that You Don’t
If you’re working on your first book, it can be intimidating to look at all the successful books out there and wonder how they managed it. If you frequent Facebook or Reddit groups of authors, there’s a new success story
5 Common Memoir Mistakes
When starting any long project, we all dread thoughts of mistakes we might make. It is even enough to keep us from starting something for fear it might go wrong. No creative process is ever going to be perfect and
Tools for a Successful Memoir
Writing a successful memoir takes more than just pouring words out onto the page. Long-form writing is a lot like building a house. When building a house, you have to keep that final form in mind. All the parts of
Four Secrets for Inspiring Memoirs
Often when people feel called to write a memoir, it is because they have experienced something so very hard, struggle over hurdles and strife and have come out so much better and stronger for it on the other side. When
