Are you wasting precious writing time?
Writing without knowing your memoir's unique message is to waste precious writing time. You will spend weeks, months, and even years, writing in the wrong direction.
What about a chapter that isn't hanging together? A narrative drive that peters out? Or the months you have already spent writing something that isn't going to speak to anyone? Before long you'll drag yourself to your desk and lose your love for your story.
Don't do that. I can help you.Â
Chapter-By-Chapter | A Concise Memoir Framework will guide you step-by-step so you can write a page turner.
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"I wish I had known this before I started writing my memoir!"
That is what one of my coaching clients said when I asked her some foundational questions about her memoir. The thing is she had written her entire manuscript without any thought to the crucial questions every memoir writer needs to ask herself.
Your Guide to Writing Your Memoir
Do you have a hot mess of scenes but no story? Do you instinctively know something isn't working but you don't know what? Or are you new to writing memoir and don't know where to start?
I'm Brenda and I'm here to guide you in writing the memoir you have always wanted. And save you hours, weeks and months of wasted writing time.
At heart I am a teacher and book coach who loves to see the transformation that writing a memoir brings to the lives of my students and clients. My students have said of me: You take the complicated and make it simple. My clients have said: You see things I don't. You work magic.
I'm not sure about the magic part but I do love structure, simplicity and showing you how to write a memoir step-by-step.
Which is why I designed Chapter-By-Chapter | A Concise Memoir Framework just for you.
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What People Are Saying
"Wow! Thank you so much for your clarity and direction with the premise of my memoir, Brenda. It makes perfect sense and now I know in my heart that this is how my story needs to be written."
Jeanne Krieg
Author of Seeing Red
"Your edits are absolutely brilliant! It changes the reader’s experience right from the get-go and launches them into the story I’m about to tell. I am so inspired! I have enjoyed every part of doing this work, but this phase feels especially exciting as I can start to see how the final draft might one day look. Thanks again for your incredible input and instruction."
Gil Merrick
Author of Haunted Victory
"Brenda, before I started working with you, I was stuck in a rut with writing my memoir. I felt isolated and started doubting what I was doing. Now, I am more motivated than ever! I have learned a lot from you and my memoir is so much better because of it."
Christie Christiaens
Author of Wager on Forever
"Thank you Brenda! Your account of my story and how you summarized it so beautifully in one hour is AMAZING. You’ve laid out the plan for my memoir which will help to keep me on track. I feel confident knowing what my book is about. This was great!"
Thèma
Ohio, USA
"Brenda, you have given me confidence I couldn't have gotten on my own, identified themes I couldn't see and overall...I feel seen!"
Carol
Montana, USA
"Brenda, your comments and questions made me realize certain things I had no idea were in my book. I feel inspired, and I'm already making changes to better convey the messages in my book. Thank you SO MUCH!"
Joanna
Illinois, USA
I never saw myself as a writer, let alone as an author.
For years, somewhere deep in me lived the desire to write a book one day. Yet, I had no idea what it would be about or if I could even write. So, I shut the voice down.Â
Until one day, it refused to be silenced a moment longer. That journey started in a hard place and led me here. Writer, author, book coach, teacher of memoir.
What will writing your memoir do for you?
Get to Know Brenda
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In When God Says No, I tell the story of my journey with grief following the untimely death of my mother—a journey where I questioned God and his goodness, questioned whether Jesus was worth following, and questioned the relevance of the Christian life.
In telling my story, my hope is that I can show how your own grief can be engaged—not merely endured. Not only can you find your way back into the light again, but God can bring healing and restoration in ways we never expect.
One Story At A Time
Do you know that you are always part of three stories? Your story, someone else's story, and God's story.
In my darkest days, I doubted God's story for my life. I doubted His goodness and His plans; I doubted that He even cared.
Through writing my story I came to see how my story is part of His great story. I saw how His story of love and redemption is woven through us, one story at a time.
In writing my story, I experienced the nearness of God and came to see that, not only did God redeem my heartbreak and broken dreams, but that, as part of His great story, they had purpose I would never have dreamed possible.
If it was true for me, it can also be true for you.
What is your story?
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Change A Life
This I know. When you write your memoir, you will change a life ... and the first life you will change is yours. How can I be so sure? Because I'm living proof. And so are the clients I have coached.
