JanYourStory

The words “goal” and “deadline” might not ring with any poetic allure, but these two words are at the center of our January Writing Event: JanYourStory.

JanYourStory is all about designing your life around the things you rationally want to achieve instead of sinking into the powerful claws of more impulsive needs. We tend to be myopic creatures, preferring positive outcomes in the present at the expense of future outcomes. 

But our present self is doing a disservice to our future self, who will scream back into the dark hollows of the past: “Why didn’t you work on our memoir?”

JanYourStory is a way your present self can better serve your future self—who wants you to write your story.

Here’s how to participate:

• Sign up for a free (or paid) membership! You’ll get a free PDF, “Crafting Your Story,” to help you begin to plan your memoir, form a strategy of accountability, and enact it.

• Get yourself mentally prepared to join us in January to write 500 words per day.

• Make an accountability plan:

• Set deadlines on your online calendar—with reminders. 

• Invite your friends and family to write with you.

• Post on social media that you’re committed to writing your memoir!

• Set word-count goals and track your progress at Pacemaker.

• Prepare to receive regular inspirational emails, join our weekly write-ins via Zoom, and hear from memoir experts on our webcasts.

• Write!

As we tumble through spring and summer and into the fall, we’ll be ramping up for JanYourStory and creating some momentum around this New Year writing event. We’re excited for you to join the inaugural JanYourStory, and for everything between now and then, too!