Month: June 2019

New course! Introducing the Setting Writing Goals Guide for life-story writers

New course! Introducing the Setting Writing Goals Guide for life-story writers. Course title overlaid on tropical beach scene of blue water and white broken waves framed by edges of green leaves. Background photo by Pixabay

Everything memoir writers need to know about imagining inspiring dreams and setting smart goals

This week I’m excited to share I have a new writing goals course for sale specifically for life-story writers!

The Setting Writing Goals Course is designed especially for writers of autobiographies, memoirs and biographies.

It is all about imagining inspiring dreams and smart goal setting to start, write and finish a writing project for yourself or a loved one.

As readers of my website you are the first to hear about the writing goals course!

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Case study: Zookeeper helps great uncle publish autobiography

Case study: Zookeeper helps great uncle publish autobiography. Series of three photos: black and white photo of Hedley as a young man dressed in Royal Air Force uniform with a woman, also in uniform, during World War II; smiling Sarah pats horses in a paddock in the countryside; and a modern colour photo of Hedley dressed casually on a doorstep with his wife Barbara. Photos: Contributed by Sarah Blake
Hedley in the Royal Air Force (left), in later life with his wife Barbara (bottom right), and his great-niece and zookeeper Sarah (top right). Photos: Contributed by Sarah Blake

Three generations work together + new memoir in making

English zookeeper Sarah Blake helped her great uncle Hedley record his autobiography when she was a teen and was struck by how much joy the process brought him.

While Hedley and his wife Barbara started the project it was Sarah and her mother who helped them finish the book for family and friends.

Years later Sarah has been inspired to write about her own life experiences.

She is in the middle of writing a memoir about the 15 months she travelled around the world using wild animals as her guide. 

Today Sarah shares more about Hedley’s autobiography to inform and inspire fellow life-story writers.

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Writing accountability: Personal accountability + accountability partners

Writing accountability: Personal accountability + accountability partners. Headshot of happy man dressed in blue and grey yelling into a silver tin-can-and-string telephone. Photo by Gratisography from Pexels.

Amazing accountability secrets to write your autobiography

First published September 2017. This article has been updated and improved.

Writing an autobiography, memoir or life story can be exciting and fun but it can also become a chore if you are not careful.

Sometimes it can feel like you are muddling along at your writing desk without any clear direction for weeks, months, even years.

Don’t let this happen to you!

Here are some writing accountability suggestions to help keep you motivated to finish your story.

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