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The Greeks gave us bios, life, and graphein, to write. Put them together and you get biography, which is literally life writing. The difference is that you don’t need to be famous, dead or terribly important to do it – you just need to have lived, have experiences you want to write about and are ready and willing to scribble.

Life writing is any writing that draws on your own life: a journal entry, a letter you’ll never send, a story about your grandmother’s hands, a personal essay, a poem about the house you grew up in, a memoir. Memoir is one form of it, the one that takes a thread and shapes it into a book. Life writing is often shorter and surprising in what it uncovers.

I have done a lot of life writing, which has shown me a lot about who I am and how I have lived and who I am becoming.

Some of this writing goes into books and some into blogs and some stay private.

What memory has been waiting the longest for you to write it down?

Courses in a book: Each book is the whole course: the teaching, the stories, the exercises and plenty of prompts, ready whenever you are.

Write Your Way to Healing and Self-Discovery

Transforming Memories into Meaning Through Life Writing

Write Your Way to Healing and Self-Discovery is a step-by-step journey through the emotional, creative, and transformative process of life writing.

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Discover the Writer Within

Explore your memories, dreams, and imagination through life writing exercises and create your own Memory Box of stories

Have you always wanted to write, but felt unsure where to start? This creative life writing course invites you on a gentle, inspiring journey to explore your memories, dreams, and imagination-one story at a time.

Dreams, Hopes, and the Road Ahead

A special journey through creative writing that invites you to explore not just where you’ve been, but where you might yet go.

This course will guide you through the inspiring practice of writing about possibility, hope, and future-oriented thinking.

Portraits of a Life

Explore the people who’ve shaped your story through character sketches, relationship reflections, and meaningful dialogue

Our lives are woven from relationships – some brief encounters, others spanning decades. This course invites you to explore the people who’ve shaped your journey through thoughtful, creative life writing.

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What’s the difference between life writing and memoir? Life writing is any writing drawn from your own life: journals, letters, essays, poems, family stories. Memoir is one form of it, where you follow a single thread and shape it into a book.

Do I need to be a writer to do life writing? No. If you’ve ever told a story about your family over Sunday lunch, you’ve already started. The rest is practice and good prompts.

What should I write about first? Start small and specific: a smell, an object, a room or perhaps a place. Small memories are easier to write, and they often lead you to the bigger stories by themselves.

What if writing brings up painful memories? It can, and that’s ok. Go gently, take breaks, and come back when you’re ready. You decide how close you get, and nobody needs to read it but you.

Can life writing become a book? Sometimes. Many memoirs start as scattered life writing pieces. When a thread keeps showing up, that’s often your book knocking. My Memoir page will help you take the next step.