Coaching while you are writing your memoir provides you technical, informational and emotional support. Often writers—usually first-time and (perhaps) only-time writers—struggle as they recall, explore, and write their memories.
If you are considering or already busy at turning your memories into memoirs, then memoir coaching is an option that will likely help you to write better and faster. There’s no reason to take forever to write a memoir.
A memoir coach can provide just-in-time learning as you tackle both the memories which flood in as a mix of undigested images, conversations, sensations needing to be sorted and prioritized and the compelling tensions between telling the truth and reliving painful times.
Denis coached me week after week and helped me turn my compulsive research into a well-written manuscript and then into a handsome book.
Jean Chrichton
When you receive coaching for your memoir, you are collaborating with someone can also assist you to implement writing techniques to better express the feelings and thoughts that your memoir is struggling to articulate. People accept easily that memoir writing, like any art form, is about self-expression, but it is harder to understand that a work of art also addresses an audience. A memoir is not only about saying your “something” but it about communicating that “something” to a readership.
Your coach at work
Your coach will help you to make the writing decisions that your manuscript needs—some of these you may not even realize require work until your coach points them out to you.
Coaching for your memoir addresses common problems such as:
- Have you chosen the right point of view for your story?
- Are your characters unique, nuanced, and consistent—and how to make them so?
- How about the details? Do these and other elements support your story?
A memoir coach does this and so much more.
The best time to work with a coach for your memoir?
The absolute best time is perhaps as you start to write; the second best time?
NOW!
E-mail or call 207-353-5454 today to set up a free session to explore coaching for your memoir.
How Memoir Coaching or Editing Works
There’s often only a permeable line between coaching and editing. In practice, as I work with a writer, I find myself slipping from coaching to editing and back. That’s how close coaching and editing really are. Depending on the state of your manuscript, coaching or editing or both are called for.
Why You Should Work With a Coach or an Editor Early in the Process
Clients will often come to me after having done a considerable amount of writing. Sometimes I will receive 200- and 300-page manuscripts. Among them are manuscripts that are really at the editing stage, but… There are too many that are still—in spite of their polished look on the page—in an early stage of development.