You have told these stories a hundred times. Here is how to write them down.
A short, practical guide to starting your memoir. Written by someone who writes them for founders and CEOs for a living.
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Ten chapters. None of them about grammar.
This is about the parts that actually stop people: where to start, what to leave out, and how to write about people who are still alive.
Five questions to ask before you write a word
Chapter three · in fullMost people begin a memoir by trying to remember their life in order. It does not work. Memory is not a filing cabinet. It is a room you walk into in the dark, and the way in is always a question, never a date.
These are five of the questions I ask a client on our first calls. Sit with one at a time. Write the answer badly and at length. You are not writing the book yet. You are finding out where it is.
If one of these made you uncomfortable, that is the chapter to write first.
I write other people's books.
I am a ghostwriter. Founders, CEOs and global heads come to me with a life they have never written down, and leave with a finished book that has their name on it and not mine.
I cannot show you any of them. Every project is under an NDA, and that is the point of hiring me. So instead, here is how the work is actually done.
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