Description
Memoir is the bravest form of writing because you can’t hide behind fictional characters. It’s you. Your life. Your pain. Your joy. Your family’s dirty laundry. And writing it all down in a way that’s both honest and artful — without having a complete emotional breakdown in the process — requires tools that most writing planners don’t provide. This one does. Inside you’ll find a ‘Life Timeline’ mapping tool for identifying the key events, turning points, and emotional through-lines of your story, a ‘Theme Mining’ framework for figuring out what your memoir is really ABOUT (hint: it’s not just ‘what happened to me’), an emotional processing protocol for handling the hard memories that surface during writing, a ‘Who Will Be Mad’ assessment and strategy guide for navigating the real-world consequences of telling your truth, a scene development system specifically designed for true stories (because real life doesn’t have three-act structure built in), a ‘Vulnerability Meter’ for calibrating how much to reveal and when, a fact-checking and memory verification system, and a ‘Permission Slip’ section for giving yourself the right to tell your own story. L.A. has coached hundreds of memoirists through the beautiful, terrifying process of putting their lives on paper. This planner is the safety net.
