Work with us

Elizabeth Wilson

Stephanie Oswald, Ph.D.

I offer the Memoir Master Plan Cohort.

It’s a small group of women, working together, with me in the room listening to your stories and helping you find the core message holding them all together. Not the message you think you should write. The real one. The one that's been running underneath every draft and every false start. I work with women who have the material. You've lived it. You might have pages, notebooks, a document with forty thousand words that doesn't have a shape yet. Or you might have nothing written and everything felt. Either way, you know there's a book in you. You're just not sure what it's about. That's not a problem. That's where we start. Are you ready to join?

I also offer 1:1 Memoir Coaching.

You and me, working together on your book. Close, careful attention to the story you're trying to tell and the one you're actually telling. Because those are usually two different things, and the second one is almost always better.

Here's what tends to happen. You come in thinking your memoir is about one thing, the loss, the move, the relationship, the reinvention. And it is about that. But it's also about something deeper you haven't named yet. My job is to help you name it. Once you have that core message, everything else organizes around it. The scenes you need, the ones you don't, the structure, the voice. It stops feeling impossible and starts feeling like a book.

I work with women who are done circling. You don't need another writing prompt or another year of thinking about it. You need someone who can sit with your drafts, fragments, and stories you're afraid to put on the page to help you see what it all adds up to.

You've been doing the hardest part alone. You don't have to. I’m here to sit beside you.