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Elizabeth Wilson
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.
Stephanie Oswald, Ph.D.
The summer before seventh grade, my mom moved us from New York to Berkeley because she thought it would be good to be close to my dad. What she didn't factor in was that I was already the awkward kid, already felt like an outsider, and now I was being dropped into a co-ed school after years at an all-girls school in Manhattan where I actually had friends. There were a lot of secrets in my house that year. Horses were the most consistent thing I had. I got my own for the first time that summer, and that changed everything. I tell you that not because it's a cute origin story, but because it's the truest thing I know about myself:
I have always found my footing in the middle of complicated, and I have always been drawn to the thing that stays steady when everything else shifts.
I'm a writer. I write romance. Sweet and swoony. The kind of story that was there for me when I needed it most. I'm also someone who has spent years helping other people figure out how to tell their stories from high schoolers trying to get into their dream schools to women building their author platforms from scratch and anyone who has ever stared at a blank page and thought, I have something to say but I don't know how to say it.
I help women writers do the work that surrounds the writing. I help you write the emails, organize your content, and gain confidence with the tech that feels like a second job when all you want to do is get back to your characters.
I'm not here to tell you to do all the things. I'm here to help you figure out which things are actually yours to do, and then do them in a way that sounds like you and not like everyone else's newsletter.
If you've been writing and wondering how to actually reach your readers without losing your mind or your voice, you're in the right place.