The Memoir Method:
Dismantling your creative blocks so that you finish that gorgeous memoir.
No matter how many times you sit down to write, nothing in your memoir draft clicks. Eventually your writing sessions become further and further apart, and then you’ve relegated yourself to “waiting for inspiration.” You’re stuck, you don’t know how you got there, and you have no idea how to break yourself out.
This is the block I love to rewire.
This creative block shows up in questions you’ve probably already asked yourself more than once:
Why can’t I figure out what to cut and what to keep?
Why does my story feel so scattered even though I’ve worked so hard?
Why does editing feel like I’m undoing everything instead of making progress?
I’ve designed everything in The Memoir Method to tackle this headspace and this creative block.
A note from Charlotte, the writer
I’m not going to bullshit you: I have spent years coaching and editing memoir writers while avoiding my own creative work.
Writers would come to me after spending years circling their drafts. They had spent hundreds, sometimes even thousands of dollars, on other editors and programs that didn’t work. They’d read all the books, listened to all the podcasts, watched all the YouTube videos, and hadn’t moved forward an inch.
I quickly realized that your talent as a writer and the quality of your current draft is not your problem, which led me to the question, What is keeping you stuck? Where are you falling off the rails? The answer forced a hard look into my own process and creative life, which for a long time was almost nonexistent.
For me to be able to support you at the depth you need, I saw that it was long past time for me to take my own creative work seriously and figure out why I was avoiding my own memoir and creative output. I am no different from you.
I started by reconfiguring how I spend my time, what I allow into my creative field, and how I show up for my own work, and the dam blocking my creative flow burst. Ideas came in faster than I could write them down. Subscribers flooded into my Substack. A magazine emailed one of my essays to over 15,000 people. My talent didn’t magically level up, and I didn’t have more time. I just stopped working against my own creative wiring and harnessed it to my advantage.
The editorial expertise and the frameworks I built work, but I’d still see writers stall out. The problem is never the draft: it’s how you engage and nurture your creative process. The writers who figure out their creative flow inevitably unlock the core and structure of their memoir.
This unlocking is what I want for you inside of The Memoir Method. Do I want you to finish your draft? Yes. But that won’t happen if you don’t learn how to take your writing seriously and to reshape your creative flow. I want you to devise a creative life that fits who you are and how your life looks, so that your memoir is just the first of many creative works you finish and publish.
I’m not just your editor who happens to write. I was a writer first, and I’m always and forever a writer. That’s what makes my editing work for my clients.
Ready to completely transform your creative life and your memoir draft?
Let’s go.
What makes The Memoir Method different:
After fifteen years of working with memoir writers and a lifetime of writing myself, here’s what I know to be true: your draft is fixable, and it’s not your primary problem. The actual block you face is in how you show up to the draft. When we fix that—align how you think about your writing, what you let into your creative field, and how you’re actually working—the manuscript moves, every single time.
Inside of The Memoir Method, we lock in the throughline of your memoir and shape your draft around it, all while building the foundation of your creative process that makes the work sustainable long beyond our time together.
The Memoir Method works because we look at not only the functional pieces of memoir, but fine tune the wiring behind your creative process as well.
The Memoir Method cohort
For the writer who thrives inside of an intimate, accountable community
Our next cohort starts on Monday, September 21, 2026.
You’ll do best inside of the Memoir Method cohort if:
You excel with structure and a set timeline.
Accountability to a small group keeps you moving.
You want to hear how Charlotte coaches other writers alongside what she’ll give you in your personal feedback.
You want the most accessible investment point.
Investment: $997
Payment plans available.
How the cohorts work:
Six writers in creative community for eight weeks
Weekly workshop calls (eight calls in total)
Weekly feedback from me in a private Google Doc
A review of up to 10K words of your draft
Lifetime access to The Memoir Method curriculum
A private Slack space to connect with me and your cohort in between calls
How we make sense of your current memoir draft:
The Memoir Method will take you through three distinct phases:
Phase 1: Lock in your foundation
We define your focus, your reader, and your memoir’s throughline. You may have touched on these concepts before, but here is where these principles click for your story and your draft. This is where you’ll feel that creative fog lift.
Phase 2: Shape your story
We refine your structure, scene selection, and voice so that your message comes through clearly and sounding like you. This is where your memoir comes together into a cohesive experience for your reader and you think, I’m really going to finish this!
Phase 3: Implement and move forward
You apply what you’ve learned directly to your manuscript and map your next steps in the publishing pipeline: revision, querying, even self-publishing.
A bonus resource that changes everything:
Every writer who enrolls in The Memoir Method—in any format—receives immediate and complimentary access to my Writer’s Workshop, a three-session workshop series that walks you through a deep audit of your current creative process.
You can consume all of it before our first call together, as you move through the program, or return to it whenever you need a reset. This resource is yours and included for every single Memoir Method writer.
Why give this access to you? The craft work we do inside of The Memoir Method is amplified when your creative foundation is solid. The teaching inside of The Writer’s Workshop addresses the pieces that live underneath the manuscript: the mindset you bring to the work, the content you’re pouring into your mind, and the writing rhythms that make consistency sustainable instead of forced.
When you have those pieces in alignment, the memoir work becomes lighter, faster, and more fun. (And I know this because this is exactly the work I needed to kick my own creative flow back into high gear.) This is the experience I desire for every writer in my space.
The Memoir Method is for you if:
Your draft feels like a scrambled mess you can’t pull together.
You have hundreds of pages of writing (tens of thousands of words) and no idea what to do with them.
You’ve worked with editors before or taken other courses but still don’t feel like anyone understands what you’re trying to say.
You’re tired of rewriting without knowing whether it’s helping or making your draft worse.
You want an editor who understands the creative process and can be a true creative partner.
You’re craving clarity, not just in your writing but in who you are meant to be as an author.
I can speak to this work, because I am also a writer. I understand the creative process, its ups and downs, and I know the mental and practical shifts you need to take your memoir from its current state to a published one.
If you want to write a memoir, you are meant to. The creative process is not meant to elude you, and I’m here to make this work accessible, fun, and transformative. Ready to go? Because I am.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No, but you do need something to work with. You’ll get the most out of The Memoir Method if you know how you work best, whether that’s knowing the basics of what you want to write and building from there, or taking a partial or full draft and refining it using The Memoir Method principles. Messy pages are more than enough to start.
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No, that’s the role of a literary agent or acquisitions editor.
What I do help you with is the deeper work: clarifying who your memoir is for, what it’s saying, and how it connects with your reader. Everything inside The Memoir Method builds from that foundation.
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Most editorial experiences hand you feedback and leave you to figure out what to do with it. Inside The Memoir Method, I walk alongside you through the work so you always know you're headed in the right direction. You're not just getting notes, you're building the skills to make the right decisions for your specific story.
I’m inside your story with you, helping you move through blocks and make decisions as you revise.
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Yes. The cohort includes a review of up to 10K words of your draft.
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Plan for about 3–4 hours per week:
– 60–90 minutes of curriculum (on your own time)
– about an hour of focused revision work
– 60–90 minutes for the live workshop (or replay) -
I run The Memoir Method two to three times a year. The next cohort won’t open again until early 2027.
If you’re ready now, this is the time to join.
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You’ll leave with a clear foundation, a defined throughline, and a revision plan you can trust, along with a path forward into querying or self-publishing.
If you want continued support, you’ll also have the option to move into my 1:1 editing container.
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Workshop calls run live in my personal Zoom room on Wednesdays at 12:00 PDT: September 23, October 7, October 14, October 21, October 28, November 4, November 11, November 16 (the only one on a Monday).
Replays are uploaded if you can’t attend live.
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You can reach out to me directly at hello {at} bookishedits {dot} com to inquire about private intensive or 1:1 availability.