In this five-month course, we will work through the building blocks of developing and writing your memoir, helping you to craft a book which not only inspires but engages readers in your deepest truths. Throughout the workshop, we will focus on:

Month One: Develop Your Story - In this first month, we discuss and develop your story, determining your message, confidence, and genre. By the end of the month, we create a rough outline for each book, guiding your writing journey over the next four months.

Month Two: Develop Your Plot - In this month, we focus in on the people, places, and action that create the whodunit of your book, determining what happens and how you should share about it, how to handle problematic characters (and people!), and discussing the ever important need for dialogue.

Month Three: Develop Your Narrative - We begin to establish the mechanics of your story, crafting your reflective voice, and determine the best choices around plot, polemic, poetics, and personal reflection, creating not just an engaging story but an inspiring and important message.

Month Four: Develop Your Structure - Wait? Structure? Shouldn’t we start there? Actually, no. We give everyone a few months to find their voice, figure out the action, determine the characters, and then begin to develop the best ways to organize and structure their story.

Month Five: Develop Your Strategy - In our last month, we go over the editing and querying process, helping writers determine the best plan, timeline, and strategy to get their books done and submitted to agents and publishers.