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Maybe you have friends who have been telling you for years, “Wow, you’ve led such an interesting life; you should write a memoir!” Well,...

A woman contacted me to inquire about ghostwriting services for her memoir. After one phone conversation, she became my first coaching...

If you're like me, you like to do things right the first time. Even if you're the only one who will read the first draft of your book,...

We're taught that plays and novels are composed of a series of connected scenes, but what exactly is a scene, and how do we create one in...

Memoir writing is deep work. Opening doors to the past can suck you back into old beliefs, behaviors, and emotions. Physical, mental, and...

Whether questions, rants, or declarations of love, snippets of dialogue can add both spice and depth to a reader's experience of your...

Everyone knows that every #story has a villain, and that #villains and #antagonists are the same thing. Too bad that neither of those...

I’ve heard many people, including some writers, use the terms perspective, voice, and tone interchangeably. This is confusing for new...

Some well-known, some not, the following are a few of my favorite memoirs for both content and presentation. A memoir - or any book,...

When writing a novel, we can choose to be an omniscient narrator, flitting from inside one character’s head to another, with a...