This document provides an overview of an online event hosted by Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner to discuss the craft of memoir writing. The event will explore what made Glennon Doyle's memoir "Love Warrior" a bestseller, including how to authentically share secrets while maintaining likability as a narrator. Attendees will learn how to balance honesty with avoiding oversharing trauma, and how to consider the consequences of publication on relationships and one's public image. The document advertises an upcoming class focusing on "Love Warrior" and discounts for a full six-month memoir writing course.

1. What Made Love
Warrior a Best-
selling Memoir?
Linda Joy Myers & Brooke Warner
www.WriteYourMemoirInSixMonths.com
How To Write A Memoir That Bares
Your Soul (And Spares No One)

2. Thanks for joining us!
Linda Joy Myers, PhD, is president of the
National Association of Memoir Writers
and the author of a new memoir, Song of
the Plains (out this June), as well as Don’t
Call Me Mother, The Power of Memoir, and
Journey of Memoir.
Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes
Press, and president of Warner Coaching
Inc. She’s the author of Green-Light Your
Book, What’s Your Book? and How to Sell
Your Memoir.
Together, Linda Joy and Brooke are the
co-authors of Breaking Ground on Your
Memoir and co-editors of The Magic of
Memoir.

3. The hard truths—how to share them,
why to share them, and what the
consequences are for you, the writer,
and the story if you don’t.
• How to be authentic while you reveal
secrets and/or shame.
• Is Glennon a likeable narrator? When
she is and when she’s not.
• How readers sense that something’s
missing.

4. • Craft choices: deciding what scenes
will include moment by moment details
and when to pull back the lens.
• Timing, intimacy, and distancing—
choices made for craft and emotional
reasons
• Descriptions, characterization,
reflection—ways to immerse or distance.
Intentional omission. What did
Glennon leave out? How did this
impact the story and her readers?

5. • Difficult, dark topics are the stuff memoir is made of, but it
must be balanced with “the light.”
• The difference between honesty and overkill.
• Warning: beware of the Trauma Olympics. Memoir is not an
exercise in who had/has the worst life.
How to tackle hard themes, and
the balance a memoir must
strike when you’re sharing the
intimate details of your
sometimes-messy life.

6. Is the Fallout Worth It?
• A look at the repercussions of writing a memoir.
• How to determine your tolerance for other people’s
reactions.
• Your private vs. public life
(Glennon made hers public).
• The risky edge—reviews,
family, and friends.
• The best time to inform
your family.

7. Turn Up the Dial on Your
Memoir—April 28 | $39
• 10am PT: Scene-writing with Linda Joy Myers
• 11am PT: Platform-building (specifically for
memoirists) with Deborah Siegel
• 12pm PT: How to sell your memoir, with literary
agent Jenni Ferrari-Adler (Union Literary)
• 1pm PT: All about character and character
development with Jordan Rosenfeld
• 2pm PT: Finding the Heart of Your Memoir, with
Julie Barton
• 3pm PT: Reflection & takeaway with Brooke
Warner
SIGN UP ON OUR HOMEPAGE: WriteYourMemoirInSixMonths.com
All sessions are recorded and will be sent out the following day.

8. Tonight’s EXCLUSIVE: $75 for our 4-week
LOVE WARRIOR class
Through end of day tomorrow, April 18
writeyourbookinsixmonths.com/love-warrior-4-week-
class/
EASY LINK FROM THE HOMEPAGE:
WriteYourMemoirInSixMonths.com
Sign up for the full 6-month course tonight—and get up to $200 off.
$100 off if you sign up tonight
Additional $100 off if you pay in 1 or 2 installments.
Make your deposit on the PROGRAM DETAILS page.
writeyourbookinsixmonths.com/program-details