MEMOIR WRITING FOR GENIUSES
OUR COACHING PROGRAMS ARE NOT FOR EVERYONE
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Want to share your pages weekly with a coach, making tiny progress each time, a process that takes years?
Our coaching isn't for you
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Want to write a first draft, a second draft, and then another, slowly improving your memoir by a process of trial and error?
Our coaching isn't for you
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Want to believe your family and friends that your memoir is perfect exactly as written?
Our coaching isn't for you
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Want to cram your entire life story into your book?
Our coaching isn't for you
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Do you have an open mind that there might be a different way to do this?
Our coaching might be for you
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Are you willing to learn what actually makes writing good?
Our coaching might be for you
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Do you want to write a book that goes out into the world, a book that strangers want to pay money to read?
Our coaching might be for you
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Do you care more about writing a good book than you care about your ego?
Our coaching might be for you
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Are you willing to learn writing concepts in exchange for completing a book in a fraction of the time it takes everyone else?
Our coaching might be for you
There is nothing like this program anywhere in existence.
Penguin Random House author Wendy Dale spent 15 years reading over 1000 manuscripts in an attempt to discover what actually makes books good. The result is a unique system that gets you to a finished book without writing draft after draft.
Many of our clients already have MFAs in creative writing yet did not learn the information in this program. We have even worked with writing instructors and literature professors with PhDs who taught at major universities, including Emory and NYU.
We have worked with reporters from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Entertainment Weekly. We've coached screenwriters from Nickelodeon and TV presenters from Nat Geo Wild and TNT.
If you can name the three biggest names in the memoir coaching business, I promise you that their clients have come to us after not getting the help they needed from them.
This works if you haven’t yet written a single word, if you’ve been at this for a while, or if you have a manuscript you’ve been pounding away at for years.
This works for beginners with no writing experience.
This does not work for people who are not willing to try a completely unique way of writing a memoir. This does not work for everyone. We don't need everyone to love this program. We want only to take on the best clients.
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HOW TO WRITE AN AMAZING MEMOIR IN JUST ONE DRAFT
Getting a great book written is easy if you understand two things:
You need to realize how plot actually works.
You need to understand what makes a reader love a book.
Penguin Random House author Wendy Dale spent 15 years analyzing over 1000 manuscripts to figure out the principles that all good memoirs must follow in order to work. The result is a step-by-step process that allows you to write your book right the first time, instead of wasting years crafting draft after mediocre draft.
There is no program like this anywhere else. This is a systematic step-by-step process that allows you to write a book quickly because you don’t waste time on mistakes.
Most writers craft a book by a process of trial and error and waste years writing pages that don’t advance the plot of their book. We remove the hit-or-miss approach and have you only write scenes that belong in your memoir. As a result, you write a book about 85 percent faster than most other writers.
Want more information on how coaching works? Fill out the questionnaire on this page and we'll send you information on the plan that is right for you.
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ABOUT WENDY DALE
Wendy Dale is the author of The Memoir Engineering System, the result of 15 years of research analyzing thousands of texts to deduce the principles that all memoirs rely on. Her own memoir, Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals, was published by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
She is the creator of Write or Flight, the world's first reality show for writers and is also the co-writer of the Emmy-nominated TV special, The New Adventures of Mother Goose.
Some of the organizations Wendy's students have worked for include Entertainment Weekly, Outside Magazine, Simon & Schuster, Seal Press, Wiley, NBC, National Geographic Wild, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and the New York Times.
Wendy currently lives with her husband and two bunnies in Cusco, Peru.
What Clients Say
I've never asked my clients for testimonials. All the videos below were recorded during class sessions when the clients interrupted me to tell me what they were getting from the program.
In this short video, five clients spontaneously chime in on what they are getting from the program.
This was another time when the students interrupted a session to thank me. You can tell in the video that I am getting very choked up.
This comes from a client during a Q&A session.
Want more information on how coaching works? Click the button below. It will take you to a short questionnaire so that we better understand you and the book you want to write.
Then we'll send you information on the plan that is right for you.