We fix your structure. We turn you into an amazing writer.
We can even get you from zero to finished memoir in 12 months. Then we help you get published.
WRITE YOUR MEMOIR IN A FRACTION OF THE TIME IT TAKES EVERYONE ELSE
Stop wasting time. Stop thinking an editor will fix your book. Stop going around in circles.
If you are just starting the process of writing your book, I want to save you years of wasted time and frustration. If you have been working on your memoir for years, I want to help you get it right now before any more time passes.
Many of our clients already have MFAs in creative writing yet desperately need our help. 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 is the best memoir-writing program in existence, hands down. The information you'll learn in this program is not available anywhere else.
This works if you haven’t started, if you’ve been at this for a while, or if you have a manuscript you’ve been pounding away at for years.
HOW TO WRITE AN AMAZING MEMOIR IN JUST ONE DRAFT
Getting a great book written is easy if you know how plot works and 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 7-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.
Set up a call time below or sign up on the wait list if we are not accepting new clients. We only accept new clients several times a year.
After you sign up for a call below, here's what happens...
- You speak to Random House memoir author Wendy Dale for 45 minutes. Wendy will assess the quality of your memoir. You can submit up to 30 pages of your manuscript prior to the call.
- Together, you'll figure out the problem that is keeping you stuck.
- You'll figure out how to make your memoir better and talk about what makes a reader genuinely love a book.
- Wendy will answer any concerns you have.
- If you need support and are a good fit for our programs, Wendy will discuss one-on-one coaching with you and explain in details the plans we offer (you can see an overview of the further down on this page).
There is no other memoir-writing program remotely like this one.
Coaching spots are all booked up right now. We'll open up more toward the end of January. Enter your name and email address below to get notified and get a link to Wendy's calendar then.
WE OFFER THREE DIFFERENT COACHING PLANS
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE PLAN
This budget-conscious plan offers you everything you need to know about structure.
COACHING DURATION: Three months
WHAT YOU'LL HAVE BY THE END OF THE PROGRAM: A complete outline that includes every chapter, scene, and transition that your memoir needs and the knowledge that you're writing a book with no structural errors.
CHEESECAKE PLAN
This is our core offering and gives you everything you need to write an amazing memoir. Most people sign up for this program. You get one-on-one help with your structure and with the writing of your book as well.
COACHING DURATION: Six months
WHAT YOU'LL HAVE BY THE END OF THE PROGRAM:
- A complete outline that includes every chapter, scene, and transition that your memoir needs and the knowledge that you're writing a book with no structural errors.
- A complete chapter that has been revised, polished, and line edited and the knowledge of what makes for good writing, the skills and confidence to spend the next six months finishing your memoir on your own.
CREME BRULEE PLAN
In this "everything included" program, you go from zero to finished book with our help. We'll even line edit your pages.
COACHING DURATION: One year
WHAT YOU'LL HAVE BY THE END OF THE PROGRAM:
A complete memoir with perfect structure and gorgeous prose, a memoir that a reader will be happy to pay money for. We'll even help you figure out publishing options.
Coaching spots are all booked up right now. We'll open up more toward the end of January. Enter your name and email address below to get notified and get a link to Wendy's calendar then.
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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.
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