How to Start Writing Your Book (Writing Workshop, virtual)

You don’t have to have it all figured out to start writing your book.

This 90-minute workshop is where you get to ask me anything about writing a memoir or story that’s so personal, like my divorce. I’ll share what I tried, how the experiments went, how I stumbled, and what I learned writing four drafts of the memoir I wrote about building the international jet-setting life that I always wanted after the marriage society raised me to want, collapsed (sup, patriarchy?).

What we’ll cover:

• Where to find your starting point (hint: it’s not the beginning)
• How to build a writing schedule that doesn’t fall apart
• Finding your voice and style
• Fitting writing into your actual life
• Rituals that help you actually sit down and write
• The “vomit draft” — and why it’s your best friend
• The difference between your writing brain and your editing brain

You’ll leave with a short list of where you might find your starting point and a different perspective on the writing process.

This is for you if:

You want to write a book about your life, or you’ve already started one and don’t know where it’s going. You’d love it if someone just pulled back the curtain on what the process is like, and gave you an opportunity to ask someone directly.

Facilitator: Laura Howe

Laura Howe is the founder of Dispatched Divorcée and the creator and director of Ladies’ Night — a live storytelling show where divorced women take the stage in their own words. She has guided dozens of women through the process of finding, shaping, and performing their stories. She’s also writing her own.