corneliadolian.bsky.social
Writer + whole-person coach helping writers confidently tell the stories inside them. Memoir, creative nonfiction, select fiction. ✍🏼
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But, hear me out, I actually like doing this. I like tea, as well, though. But also hot water (lemon not required).
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Yes, I love this take! Read what you want to read, when you want to read it. The right book at the right time can be such a boon, and good books are always worth the wait.
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Just a prop a phone up and record yourself. I would watch this YouTube channel.
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Truly, it's the Vegas of fast breakfast establishments.
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I don't know how or why brown eggs are better, but I know that they are.
I'm not a scientist, but I am an eggcellent judge of breakfast foods.
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I promise there's more there than you think, if you look for the right things.
The elements that make your memoir hook and hold a reader are not the things that make a celebrity memoir successful (those have built-in success).
You have to bring your unique things out, to the forefront.
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Which is to say your memoir needn't be like Cher's, needn't be in multiple parts, needn't cover absolutely every angle.
What, in your story, in your life, are people going to feel most curious (nosy?) about and compelled by?
What in YOUR life is going to hook and hold them?
I promise...
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People want to know all the behind-the-scenes, the inner workings, the private thoughts and feelings of a woman who's graced us with her public presence, performance, and power for a long time.
There's a curiosity there about details of Cher's life that is not there for non-celeb memoirists.
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I can't wait to read this. Thank you in advance for doing the difficult and brave work of writing it.
May it be received well and may it bring about so much good and goodness.
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Congrats!!!
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Let this free and focus you to home in, dive deep, and tell your most compelling truth.
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You’re telling a single complete story.
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Because, no you’re not writing your memoirs.
You are writing *a memoir*.
ONE memoir.
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As it should.
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It’s like Ira Glass said, we all know what “good” looks like it, and we can tell when we’re falling short. The distance sometimes feels too wide to bridge, it’s frustrating.
But the trick is to know that only by continuing to work will we bridge it.
Consistency, patience the unsexy stuff.
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It’s great! I love the charts!
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Goodreads is so unsightly. It’s embarrassing.