Join us for our live two-hour class and discover the Five Things We’ve Learned about working through self-doubt and uncertainty to writer your own personal story – from the first terrifying blank page to the final, hard-won draft.

You have a story worth telling. You may have been circling it for years—starting and stopping, wondering if your life is interesting enough, whether you have the writing chops, whether anyone will care.

Here’s what we know after decades of working with writers: every writer goes through these same stages of self-doubt and uncertainty. But if you have a story that is calling you, tickling you, haunting you—then it is worth writing. The only thing standing between you and that story is knowing where to begin.

That’s what this class is for.

We’ve spent our careers in the world of memoir—as writers, teachers, publisher and community builder, co-founders of Memoir Nation, and co-hosts of the Memoir Nation podcast. Between us, we’ve guided thousands of memoirists through every stage of the process, from the first terrifying blank page to the final, hard-won draft.

Now, each of us is in the process of finishing our first memoir, so we have a keen, fresh take on the process and the challenges—through our own writing—so we want to share the five things we’ve learned about writing our first memoirs: what memoir really is (and isn’t), how to find the story only you can tell, how to write with vulnerability without losing yourself, how to push through the muddy middle, and how to believe in your story enough to actually finish it.

This isn’t a class about writing in the abstract. It’s a class about writing your story—the specific, irreplaceable one that has been asking to be told.

We can’t wait to write it with you.

–Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner