Personal narratives and practical guidance on memoir writing. These articles explore how to capture life experiences in compelling narrative form, drawing from ghostwriting memoir projects including working with clients ranging from a ninety-two-year-old resort developer to professionals documenting their career journeys.
Master electricians, stone masons, watchmakers, boatbuilders, organ builders, and more. Knowledge that does not transfer through textbooks. The book is the only structure that captures what apprenticeship used to carry.
Veterinarians have decades of witnessed moments inside the human-animal bond. The pet-care manual is the wrong book. Here is what the right one is.
The window for writing a veteran’s memoir is closing faster than most veterans realize. Here’s what I tell veterans when they ask whether they should start now.
A profile of a memoir client who uses AI more thoughtfully than most professionals half his age. Never lets it write a word. He’s the model for augmented humans.
Naming names to settle a score is the fastest way to get sued and the surest way to write a book nobody respects. Here’s the better book hiding inside it.
Holiday scenes in fiction and memoir fail when they default to sentiment instead of specificity. Here’s how to write Christmas that readers feel.
A ghostwriter with 54 memoir projects on how to handle family, friends, and colleagues in your memoir without destroying relationships or getting sued.
A 54-book ghostwriter on why the most successful people in business, entertainment, and public life write memoirs, and what those books do for their careers.
After ghostwriting 54 books including memoirs for clients in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, here’s how to organize your life story into a book worth reading.
I wrote my first memoir at 17 from my grandfather’s WWII journals. Here’s what I’ve learned about turning life into a book people want to read.
The format chosen shapes everything about how readers experience your memoir. A ghostwriter who has structured dozens of memoirs on which formats work and why.
How to write your memoir, from a ghostwriter who has helped clients preserve legacies from resort developers to brain surgeons to childhood survivors.
A ghostwriter who has written 54 memoirs on how to capture a loved one’s story yourself. The process, the interviews, and what most people get wrong.
I was 8 years old watching the Apollo 11 landing on a black & white TV. That night started a lifelong obsession with space and science fiction. Here’s the story
A ghostwriter who has written 54 memoirs on how to start writing your own. The interview process, finding your theme, and why most memoir attempts stall.
How I proposed at Wendy’s and ended up getting married 4 times in 1 week – my story about love, practical arrangements, and what really makes a marriage work.
Your life story disappears when you die. Every detail, every lesson, gone. A memoir pulls it out of your head and puts it where your family can reach.
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