Writing Your Life Story. Turning Memories Into Memoir

Writing Your Life Story. Turning Memories Into Memoir, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 132 lectures, based on 377 reviews, and has 2624 subscribers.

You will learn about Plan and write a memoir Understand what is needed to plan and write a book How to edit to engage your readers Go from first draft to published author Understand more of the technicalities of writing and publishing a book Use the tools provide to great effect This course is ideal for individuals who are People who have stories they really want to share or Anyone who wants to share their story to help others or Anyone who wants to write a memoir and doesn't know where to start or Anyone who needs to heal through writing It is particularly useful for People who have stories they really want to share or Anyone who wants to share their story to help others or Anyone who wants to write a memoir and doesn't know where to start or Anyone who needs to heal through writing.

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Summary

Title: Writing Your Life Story. Turning Memories Into Memoir

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 132

Number of Published Lectures: 109

Number of Curriculum Items: 132

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 109

Original Price: $84.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Plan and write a memoir
Understand what is needed to plan and write a book
How to edit to engage your readers
Go from first draft to published author
Understand more of the technicalities of writing and publishing a book
Use the tools provide to great effect

Who Should Attend

People who have stories they really want to share
Anyone who wants to share their story to help others
Anyone who wants to write a memoir and doesn't know where to start
Anyone who needs to heal through writing

Target Audiences

People who have stories they really want to share
Anyone who wants to share their story to help others
Anyone who wants to write a memoir and doesn't know where to start
Anyone who needs to heal through writing

Writing Your Life Story. Turning Memories Into Memoir

Do you have a story about your life that you are yearning to write?

Your story is important. It’s your life and it is your legacy.

Your story can be just for you, a healing story, a slice of life or self-help. Imagine passing your story down through the generations.

How to turn your life into a non-fiction book, your memoir

Turning your life into a memoir is simpler than you think. In this course, I take you on a journey through your life, helping you to decide what slice of life you will share and then editing it so that it engages with your readers.

It can often be difficult to write your story as you meander back into your personal history. This is such a worthwhile venture. It brings clarity while being cathartic and it is always inspiring.

You don’t have to have had a tough life to write a memoir, you can write yours to provide a legacy for future generations or you can just write it because you can.

You don’t even have to publish it, but just imagine if you did, imagine giving your book to friends and family… Or lclients if you are using this to teach with.

Writing your memoir gives you truth and clarity.

It can be happy, sad, funny, scary, cutting or kind, but most of all, it’s about you, your life and your truth – the way you see and have experienced it.

Even if you think that all you have done is gone from birth to where you are now with nothing exciting to share, I would beg to differ. I bet there is much more to your life than you give yourself credit for.

Memoir lets you share your stories, in a way that lets others see what you went through (good or not so good), shows who you are and says ‘maybe I can help you, maybe you can learn from me.”

Your memoir could be your story, you could write it because you need to heal, or you can turn it into a self-help book, where you provide advice to others. Whichever you choose, this course will help you to plan it, write it, edit and get it self published.

The challenge is to get started. Let me take you on a journey that will make writing your memoir as stress-free and easy as possible.

Join me for the next part of your life and writing adventure

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome and getting started

Lecture 1: Intro to this course and meet Dale

Lecture 2: How to get the most out of this course

Lecture 3: Get a journal for the journey

Lecture 4: Before you start – your resources

Chapter 2: Getting Inspired

Lecture 1: Why do you want to write a memoir?

Lecture 2: What kind of memoir will you write?

Lecture 3: A look at the kinds of memoir you can write – Amazon

Lecture 4: Being inspired by your bookcase

Lecture 5: My book exercise

Lecture 6: Read other peoples memoirs 1

Lecture 7: Read other peoples memoirs 2

Chapter 3: Things to think about before you start

Lecture 1: Creating the right environmental conditions for writing

Lecture 2: Key Elements

Lecture 3: Telling the truth and legal aspects

Lecture 4: Authenticity

Lecture 5: Vulnerability

Lecture 6: Support

Lecture 7: Mindset and Your Thoughts

Lecture 8: How Many Words Should You Write?

Chapter 4: Planning

Lecture 1: How long will it really take?

Lecture 2: Complete book roadmap

Lecture 3: Trello

Lecture 4: Setting Goals

Chapter 5: Envisioning and values

Lecture 1: Visualisation for your book

Lecture 2: Vision and Big Picture

Lecture 3: Your perfect day – make it real

Lecture 4: Values

Chapter 6: Discovering your stories

Lecture 1: Where is my now?

Lecture 2: Timelines and Turning Points

Lecture 3: What is your story?

Lecture 4: Brainstorming

Lecture 5: Your Story List

Lecture 6: Demo: A Story List

Lecture 7: Create A Rough Chapter List

Lecture 8: Researching and Gathering Memories

Lecture 9: Review Time

Chapter 7: Finding The One Idea

Lecture 1: Journal prompts to help create clarity

Lecture 2: Discovering Your Memoir's Central Theme

Lecture 3: Exercise: Discovering Your Memoir's Central Theme

Lecture 4: Core Message

Lecture 5: Exercise: Uncovering Core Messages in Your Memoir

Lecture 6: Importance of Titles in Memoirs

Lecture 7: Create A Compelling Description

Lecture 8: Review Time

Chapter 8: Your ideal reader

Lecture 1: Who is your ideal reader?

Lecture 2: What Questions Is Your Reader Asking?

Lecture 3: Map the customer journey

Lecture 4: Research on Amazon

Chapter 9: Structur – outlining and structure

Lecture 1: Do you have clarity?

Lecture 2: The Story Journey Exercise

Lecture 3: Intro to outlines

Lecture 4: Narrative Arc

Lecture 5: The Plot

Lecture 6: The Chapter Plan

Lecture 7: Character Development

Chapter 10: Outlining

Lecture 1: Chapter Frameworks

Lecture 2: Outlining Ideas

Lecture 3: Narrative Arc – Chapter Outline

Chapter 11: Outlining demonstrations

Lecture 1: DEMO: Stepping out your outline

Lecture 2: DEMO: Stepping out your outline – outside

Lecture 3: DEMO: Using mindmaps to create an outline

Lecture 4: DEMO: Using record cards to create an outline

Lecture 5: DEMO: Photo Collage outline

Lecture 6: DEMO: Getting ideas – timelines and turning points

Lecture 7: DEMO: The outline in WORD

Lecture 8: DEMO: Outline in WORD -subheadings

Chapter 12: Starting To Write

Lecture 1: Let's make a date

Lecture 2: Starting to Write

Lecture 3: Getting to first draft

Lecture 4: Show And Tell

Lecture 5: Writing Techniques

Lecture 6: Dialogue

Lecture 7: First chapter trial write

Lecture 8: DEMO: Resources on Kindle Direct Publishing

Lecture 9: DEMO: WORD – design, style sheets and the navigation pane

Lecture 10: Is this the right book?

Lecture 11: Other things to think about

Lecture 12: The writing tracker

Lecture 13: DEMO: The Excel Writing Tracker

Chapter 13: Editing and Proofing

Lecture 1: Editing

Lecture 2: The editing process

Lecture 3: Editing – Making sense of your work

Lecture 4: Demo: WORD – Read aloud

Lecture 5: Editing – Words, spelling and grammar

Lecture 6: DEMO: Grammarly add-in

Lecture 7: Editing – Check your formatting

Lecture 8: Help I've got into a mess

Instructors

Dale Darley
Journal Coach. Author

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 6 votes
2 stars: 17 votes
3 stars: 39 votes
4 stars: 111 votes
5 stars: 204 votes

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