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Thank you , Louisa for the replay ! I was planting beans in the next county during your live session. Watching now as I clean up! ❤

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Registered and looking forward to learning!

Knowing the right agent, marketing, and money.

I’ve almost finished writing my medical memoir (about training in the hospital as a student nurse). It’s on 53k words but I want to finish it at 62ish- k as I’ve heard this is the best length for this specific genre. I don’t know much about the publishing process at all. What is the best way to get professional/critic advice before it ever reaches an editor or publisher? I have heard not many agents work with this type of non-fiction, and I’m not sure what the best approach is as I am new to this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated if you have any:) it’s quite a complicated process ! But I am happy with the structure and themes (though unsure if I have done things correctly).

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I actually want to be an agent, but it's good to hear anything I can about publishing and writers. I also have written several books and screenplays. I'm trying to work both sides for myself and others.

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I am just starting out and that advice is so helpful. I need to just be myself and let it flow out - that is very freeing. Thank you.

This is good info, as always. What are your thoughts on the advantage or disadvantage of using substack as a memoir writer who wants traditional publishing?

I Louisa. Do you have a full video on substack for authors? I did a search on your channel but didn't find one so thought I'd ask in case I missed it. I am wondering if it's a good idea to write on substack or to focus instead on getting personal essays published in magazines and newspapers - or do all of that.

I'm addicted, everything broken down. ❤ She can carry an audience teaching, and content.

I'm starting my query letter. Today is the first day writing book.

great advice

Hmmm..... Okay

Thanks. Good info!

Thanks Louisa, this has been so helpful!

Hi Louisa. Thanks as always for your time and ino. I get what you're saying, however, I have a self-published horror novella, and a short horror story coming out in an anthology next month, and am now working on a memoir. Because it's a completely different genre, I thought it good to mention that I am working on a memoir, so I don't appear to only write horror. Thoughts in a case like this? Is it still better to not mention the memoir? How should a writer make it known on the website that they do not write only horror for instance?

You teach as good or better than you write.

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This is excellent! So helpful! I loved the connection with how you learn piano, because I’m a piano teacher. Makes a lot of sense!

Well said. Well done.

I love that your video talks validate me and let me know that I am on the right track with my memoir.

Great video Louisa

Oh my goodness, thank you for explaining all of this. I'm editing my memoir and discovering nuances in the story and loving the process but I thought I was working towards turning it over to an editor because I couldn't possibly see the story as a reader would. But you're saying what I feel, that nobody can bring out the depth better than the person who lived it.

This was very helpful. I appreciate it.

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Happened to me. I foolishly tried to follow the advice from 'experts' on You Tube and messed about with my writing in an effort to obey the rules, and ruined the style of it...('be it bad or good) if we adhere srictly to these set demands, then we shall all end up writing the same book., like all those proverbial monkeys with a typewriter, eventually all managing to write The Complete Works of Shakespare. Dean Koots once said, it is also useless to look up other writers to compare what is in vogue and what isn't, because the reader, (and I am an avid one) is looking for something original and new. Imagine if no one tried anything innovative because it broke the rules. Your advice is so heartwarming and encouraging. The only thing important to me, is that a professional agent(s) assess my manuscript which will stand or fall on its merits or demerits. And if it won't do, It won't do ! I will learn from my mistakes. But then...what if it does 'do' ? I am reminded of an old adage. 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.' Thank you for encouraging us to carry on.

I pitched my memoir as a dark comedy and was told it was actually tragedy. Go figure.

So helpful, Louisa! Great insights into the publishing world from your real-world experience. Thanks for sharing.

Dean Kootz says exactly the same thing about all writing. f we take into considderation all of the aspects of the 'experts' on You Tube, we will end up with the same book

Great practical insights into the world of publishing. Thanks, Louisa!

Great insight, Louisa! Makes so much sense to view the query as a conversation starter rather than hoping for an instant book deal. Not smothering the agent with too much details. Just giving enough to invite them to ask for more. Thanks!

After 69 years, writing my memoir put the puzzle pieces together for the first time. Yikes, I realized I am autistic. Would have been splendid to have discovered I'm artistic...oh, well. Great video as usual. Thank you!

Very well presented. Excellent advice. Thank you.

Love this clarity!!! Thank you!!! ❤

Wonderful quick workshop! Great explanations.

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I'd rather hear the truth. So thanks.

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As usual, such insight! Your lessons are so critical for us all!

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Thank you very much. I'm intersted in your course.

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Thank you for taking the time to share your expertise. This information is most helpful, as I am working on a memoir but trying to style it as a non-fiction. I'm going to keep watching your other videos. Cheers to you!

Thank you ....

What if you are not writing your memoir in a chronological sustained narrative style, but closer to the story told in essays that are each complete on their own. This is a style in several popular memoirs, and it is a style I've always enjoyed as a reader, however, it does mean that chapter outlines wouldn't really exist. I can outline the 3-4 parts or acts I think to achieve the same net result. Your course sounds great but does sound like a large focus is on chapter outlines, so wondering how it works for a book like mine. .