Maybe you’ve been thinking about writing your memoir for years. Maybe you’ve already started—only to find yourself with pages and pages of memories and no idea what to do with them. You know there’s a story in there somewhere. The hard part is figuring out how to tell it.

Memoir is a craft. And you can learn it.

You don’t need to be a born writer. And you don’t need another person telling you to “just write.”

You need to understand how stories actually work: how to find the thread running through a lifetime of memories, decide what belongs, build compelling scenes, write yourself as a character, and shape everything into a book that holds together.

That’s what we’re figuring out here.