Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing Heeding Your Inner Voice and Navigating Your Memoir's Dark Night of the Soul with Suzette Mullen
Author and writing coach, Suzette Mullen shares tips for structuring your memoir, navigating the dark night of the soul, living with integrity, and learning to listen to your inner voice.
Suzette’s Bio: Suzette Mullen (she/her) is a memoir and nonfiction book coach, retreat leader, and the author of the memoir The Only Way Through Is Out (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024), named one of February’s “most anticipated” releases by Lambda Literary. Foreword Reviews calls The Only Way Through Is Out: “Candid, inspirational… An emotive memoir that issues a stirring call to women to choose self-actualization.” Suzette’s essays have appeared in the New York Times, today.com, and Brevity, among other outlets. In her work as a book coach, Suzette guides writers to find their deeper stories and define their big ideas. She co-hosts the Mainely Memoir Retreat for women memoir writers and supports LGBTQ+ writers through her group mentorship program, Write Yourself Out. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Wellesley College, Suzette is working on her next book, a memoir about the costs and joys of living authentically.
Resources Mentioned In this Episode:
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
Suzette’s Free Companion Guide/E-book
Why Preparing a TED Talk Makes You a Better Memoirist (Even If You Never Intend to Get on Stage)
Episode Highlights
2:00 Exploring Cover Design
7:00 The Mid-Life Coming-of-Age Story
11:00 Identifying Your Inner Voice
17:00 Learning to Listen to Yourself
22:00 Integrity and Seeing Clearly
26:30 Living Through the Dark Night of the Soul
30:00 Beating Out Your Story and Cutting Your Darlings
34:00 Building a Behind-the Scenes Guide
36:00 Deciding What’s for Public Consumption
Connect with Suzette:
Website: https://www.yourstoryfinder.com/ and https://www.mainelymemoir.com/
Instagram: @urstoryfinder
Facebook: Suzette Mullen, Author
Facebook: Your Story Finder
LinkedIn: Suzette Mullen, LGBTQ Book Coach, Memoir
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