Memoir Mistakes that can Derail your Book

Writing any kind book can be a daunting task, but writing a memoir comes with its own set of specific hurdles that fiction, self-help, and academic writers don’t necessarily have face. In helping our coaching clients and Memoir Method group,

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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.

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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

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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

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How to Turn Your Journal into a Memoir

At Page & Podium, we love a good journal. Of course, there’s something lovely about the feel of a journal itself–whether you like dotted pages or lined, lay-flat or spiral, gel roller ink or felt-tip. Even if you’re a digital

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Healing from Trauma and Writing

This week’s topic is a deeply personal and vulnerable one, as we explore into the complex journey of healing from trauma and how to know when you’re ready to write your story. If you’ve been following our content, you know

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Rediscovering the Fun in Writing

Writing should be enjoyable and a reflection of your creativity. Sometimes we can all find ourselves having lost the spark and then we are trapped in a cycle of procrastination, guilt, and self-doubt. It seems easier to give up than

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How to Get Effective Writing Feedback

Good feedback should leave you feeling energized and excited to make changes that’s going to make your writing so much stronger. It should also honor the place in the progress your work is. Your work might need a complete re-haul

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How to Start Revising your book

There’s nothing quite like a finished first draft. You spent months prepping for drafting and then months chipping away at it until finally, you’ve hit those last points, those last pages, and have gotten to an appropriate word count for

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