Memoir and life story writing are more than just recounting the events of your life. Not to diminish the stories of “I went here, and I did this,” but consider destinations and accomplishments more as the raw material to work with rather than the finished product. To bring your life story or memoir to life, you have to paint a vivid picture for your readers of the stakes, the risks, and the tension. Yes, those same elements that make great fiction make great memoir too. But m

It’s a life-story writer’s dream to ask a simple question and receive a river of heart-felt emotion.  That’s typically what happens when...

While the facts and circumstances of your life story form a mosaic unique to you, readers will connect with your shared human emotions.