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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