Writing school

Writing a memoir comes down to two words: reflection and transmission. Understanding your life by writing it, then passing it on. Four simple moves to begin, no literary ambition required.

Every genre worth writing runs on a code — and every beginner wants to break it on day one. Why the subversion you're dreaming of only works after the apprenticeship you're avoiding.

The tale is the only story form with a complete grammar: a finite set of moves in a fixed order. Story's skeleton, learned from the stories that are skeleton.