Memoir School
Who we are
Write Your Memoir Or Hybrid Memoir With The Word Alchemist
What is Memoir School?
This is not a school in the traditional sense – let’s face it, no one wants to go back to school…
You won’t find cold classrooms, stuffy teachers, literary snobbery or weird rules.
Think less stuffy, rigid writing class and more a light space to finally face your stuff and get it written. It’s where practical meets energy. And it’s a safe space where your story and stuff are witnessed and held.
We don’t just work with the plans and words on the screen; we pay attention to what your body is doing while you plan, write and publish. If your gut is churning, your throat tightening, your shoulders dancing with your ears, or your jaw locking, we will pay attention to that. And we will tackle things like what will your relatives say and other worries.
Memoir School gives you tools, structure, rituals and the absolute permission to tell your procrastination to sod off, stop faffing around and tell the whole freaking slice of life – the one with a message in it.
Each of the offerings is a stepping stone to getting it done and out there.
Memoir School is for you (men and women) who know they have a story inside them that refuses to be ignored And the story has a message. You are in the right place if:
You’ve hit the 4,000-word wall
You start with enthusiasm, but a few thousand words in, the draft fizzles out because three different books (the Story, the Teaching, and the Reckoning) are quietly arguing with your computer – who doesn’t care
You want connection over isolation
You don’t want to sit alone in a dark room with your hoodie up, wondering if you’ve lost your mind ; you want a safe, friendly, and genuinely fun space to write alongside others.
You’re tired of the “Someday” myth
You’re waiting for life to settle down, for the garden to be done, or for a £5,000 retreat in Tuscany to magically appear
You’re worried about Secret Keepers
You want to write your emotional truth, but you’re terrified of family judgment, lighting a fire you can’t put out, or what the dead might say.
You flinch at Tough scenes
You find yourself jumping into explaining “what it all meant” before you’ve actually shown what happened, using advice as a shield to stay safe from the emotional fallout.
What’s Inside Memoir School?
Memoir Foundations
Get Ready to Write (8-Week Live Program)
Over eight live sessions, you will take the story in your head and turn it into a clear, chapter-by-chapter outline.
We cover emotional safety protocols for digging into past memories, life mapping and timelines, theme and reader clarity, and structural narrative shape.
You leave with absolute clarity on your book and a working plan ready for drafting.
Write With Me
Weekly Live Writing Containers
Dedicated weekly co-writing sessions. Write your book or blog. Learn to write from the scar, not the open wound , navigate the “Month-Three Wall of Shame” with live support, and turn up week by week until your draft is finished.
Blog Your Book
How Do I Get Readers?
Build an audience while you write, establishing strong personal boundaries on how much to share and how to stay safe in public comments.
You’ll need a lead magnet connected to something that entices your reader to want to give up their email. Then there is the content plan – which we can build from your chapter plan and existing content. If you have an existing book, whether it has been published or not – we can use that too.
Publish With Me
Get It Out
Master the technical bits – interior layout, cover design, Kindle and print uploads – while having a hand to hold through the “vulnerability hangover” when you press publish.
This is the bit that makes it all worth it. Holding the physical object – your book. The story that lived inside you for years, that you were half-afraid of, now has a cover, a listing and a smell, and it’s sitting in your hands.
What Else?
Build Your Business
What do you actually want this book to do?
Discover whether your memoir is a business engine, an act of completion, or a lasting legacy -without forcing a sales funnel onto a sacred story.
You’ll discover lots of things you could do, but will they help you realise your vision? You’ll have some brilliant ideas which simply aren’t practical right now and things that you said yes to turn in the cold light of day into things that do not energise you.
Ask Me Anything
What It Says On The Tin
These are open sessions where you can come and ask me anything.
Join me for a memoir & Story Circle
Memoir & Story Circles
A 1.15 hour safe space where 4 storytellers share their story – what it is, why they want to share it and what they would like it to do in the world.
You tell it your way – no scripts or slides – just you and the moment.
This is without commentary or judgment, while up to 6 silent witnesses listen.
The chat opens only for “what moved me” reflections, keeping the space safe and free of unsolicited advice.
Next date: Weds 2nd Sept @ 2pm CET / 1pm UK – please check www.worldtimebuddy.com for the time in your timezone.
When you hold the physical book in your hands, you are no longer the one the story happened to – you are the author of it.
