


Write Your Life Story: 3 Vital Steps to Better Prepare
It can be daunting trying to write your life story—sifting through a mountain of files, photos, letters and memorabilia and organising them into a coherent narrative. So overwhelming in fact that many potential memoirists procrastinate and may never end up writing their life story. If you write your life story or memoir, you will realise […]

Writing your memoir? 3 tips for a better manuscript
One of the most satisfying ways you can share the lessons from your well-lived life is through writing a memoir. Today the publishing market is flooded with sensationalist and trashy memoirs of celebrities and politicians, but you want to write a meaningful memoir that touches the hearts of your readers and inspires them. Writing a […]


Writing your life story: 4 terrific tips to write a book
Looking for tips to write a book? Humans have been sitting around fires entertaining each other with stories since before we could write. We have all created and told so many tales in our life that we probably can’t remember them—or at least I can’t. One way you can capture your memories and anecdotes is […]

How To Start A Memoir: 8 Amazing Tips
The beginning of a story is an essential part because it captures your readers’ imagination and keeps them reading. In my memoir writing workshops, a question participants often ask me is: ‘Where should I start my story? At my birth? An important milestone? A momentous occasion?’ If you are writing a memoir or life story, […]

Mental health week: 5 benefits of life story writing
World Mental Health Day on 10 October, is a national event that aims to improve community awareness and interest in mental health and wellbeing. It is particularly important this year, as COVID-19 lockdowns have left millions of people feeling isolated and depressed. Mental Health Mental Health Day, Mental Health Week and Mental Health Month (October) […]

3 powerful tips to write a biography
Virginia Woolf once said, ’How does one write a biography?’ The famous writer struggled with how to write the biographies of other people as well as her own autobiography. She drafted her autobiography several times, but each version differed from its predecessor and sadly she ended her life before finishing what could have been her […]

Life story #1 tip: Create strong characters
One of the most challenging aspects of memoir writing is bringing characters to life. Taking a real-life person, getting inside them and truly knowing them. One of a life writer’s responsibilities is to reveal the gap between the mask a person wears and their secret self. But how can a life writer cut through to […]

Turbo-charge your memoir by joining a writing group
Writing a memoir helps you find your voice, tell your story, and reach out to others. You start thinking about your memories, moments that make you feel young again, wondering: what is the legacy I’m leaving behind? But how to get started? I speak to many people who want to write their memoir, but they […]