Everyone has a story worth saving, and most people wait too long to write it down. These posts are for anyone who wants to write a memoir — where to start, how to structure a life into a book, formats to choose from, and why the time to capture your story is now, before the witnesses are gone.
Authority Through AuthorshipSkilled trades hold knowledge that does not move through textbooks, certifications, or YouTube, the kind that takes thirty years of apprenticeship to build and dies in a single generation when the master retires silent. Here are ten trades, master electricians,…
Authority Through AuthorshipVeterinarians hold an authority almost no other profession does, because they are the last person in the room when an animal dies and the first on call when one is sick. The right book is not a pet-care manual; it…
Authority Through AuthorshipIf you are a veteran, especially Vietnam- or Korea-era, the window for your memoir is closing faster than you think. Once you are gone, your children get fragments and your grandchildren get less than that. The memoir is what survives,…
AI vs Human GhostwritingA 71-year-old writing his memoir uses AI better than most professionals half his age, to find the gaps in his draft, to refocus when he loses the thread, to leave his ghostwriter notes on what to tackle next, and never…
DefamationA revenge memoir is a bad idea for the writer and a worse one for the ghostwriter. I once turned down a former mob informant who wanted to name names and settle scores, then promised to keep my role secret,…
Overcoming Writing ResistanceA client goes quiet for two days and my brain writes the entire catastrophe: he hated the chapter, he is firing me, the refund, the career-ending review. From he hasn't emailed to professional ruin in under an hour. If that…
MemoirChristmas is brutally hard to write, because its cultural weight pulls you toward generic warmth, the lights, the cookies, the sentiment every reader has heard a thousand times and feels nothing for. The fix is specificity: not Christmas in general…
DefamationThe hardest part of a memoir is never the prose; it is the people, the parent, the ex, the business partner whose presence the story needs and whose inclusion creates a problem no amount of craft can fully solve. All…
Book SalesRoger Enrico ran Pepsi during the Cola Wars and signed the biggest celebrity endorsement of its era, then wrote a memoir that defined the story rather than just telling it. That is the power these books hold. Here is why…
Book ProposalYou are not short on material; the hard part is shaping decades of experience into something that holds a reader and captures what truly mattered. Some of my most rewarding projects have been memoirs for clients in their seventies, eighties,…
Book ProposalAt seventeen I wrote my first memoir, my grandfather's, a Navy cook captured at Corregidor who survived the POW camps and a march through Manila. The family's version was secondhand and partly wrong, so I interviewed him for dozens of…
JulyA writer's reflection on Independence Day — from childhood fireworks to Big Bear Lake, from grandfather's POW camp to the freedom to build a career out of words
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