If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. You want to write a memoir? Get a book coach.
Decision #10 from Sixteen Superpowers Memoir Writers Need to Have. Over sixteen posts, I help you make pacts with yourself so all will go well for you.
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10. Get a book coach.
YOUR MANTRA: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Coaching keeps you on track. It can feel like therapy because someone is listening to you and holding your story with you. (But it’s not therapy -- get a trained psychotherapist, too!)
A book coach can support you because she has navigated these waters before. You have decisions ahead of you that, if you make them with confidence and clarity, you’ll have a better book. And you’ll have it faster.
A book coach can significantly cut out “drawer time,” that part where you write a fantastic or not-so-fantastic first draft, then let it sit in a drawer for a few years.
Don’t self-reject. Don’t write something beautiful, then tell yourself it wasn’t beautiful.
Work with someone who believes in you—and knows how to get there. It takes a few steps.
DECISION: Go together.
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ABOUT SIXTEEN SUPERPOWERS OF MEMOIR WRITERS
It’s easy to write a memoir! All you need to do is write something with universal resonance that is true and comes from your life.
Let’s get real. To write a memoir, you need a basket of superpowers.
As a memoir writer with a forthcoming book (BOUNDLESS, coming December 2024 - pre-order here at Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Amazon and as a book coach/developmental editor who works with memoir writers, I’ve learned quite a lot about tapping into literary superpowers.
What’s enduring about memoir is that it is real, and it matters. A few decisions you make on the front end will determine whether it will go well.
In this series of posts, I give you 16 decisions to install at the beginning of your journey. Make these pacts with yourself, stick to them and you’ll get there!
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