Last but not least, I’ll teach you tools to reenergize your writing, cut through the fear and put your inner mentor in the driver’s seat instead of your inner critic. As always, our foundation will be on safety, self-care and mind/body support in order to keep you sane and healthy and facilitate a sustainable experience.

Please note: this isn’t a traditional workshop where we discuss pages. Instead, it’s meant to streamline the process and help you strengthen your narrative arc—key to keeping your reader engaged and getting your memoir published—and nail down that messy middle. Our live calls will be devoted to helping you brainstorm, troubleshoot and clarify your puzzle pieces with lots of support from me and our fellow writers.

Here’s what other writers have said about working with me:

Tanja’s Mastermind course provides support and discourse in a safe environment. The growth as a writer and a reader has been instrumental on my writing journey. It has allowed me to find insight regarding my project as well as skills and tools to better design my book … The generosity of the other attendees and mutual support of one another’s projects creates a true wonderful community. –Jessica Stokes

You are an absolutely amazing teacher. I learned more from you in one day than I did in my year-long writing intensive. —Karen Terrell

The course lessons on the craft of writing memoir are clear, organized, and grounded in experience. Tanja provides a very thorough step-by-step guide from inception to completion of your memoir. She is able to meet each writer where they are, while offering generous and skillful guidance. I couldn’t have dreamed up a better mentor for this process, as she creates a safe space to develop as a writer, explore vulnerable moments, and make meaningful progress on my work. –Julie Badal

Tanja has a gift for creating a supportive community. –Christine M. Tracy

If this course calls to you, please join us!

Click here to read the full course description as well as to register or copy and paste the following url into a new browser: https://tanjapajevic.lpages.co/navigating-the-messy-middle-memoir/

Warmly,

Tanja

P.S.: Some folks have asked me about the difference between my Memoir Mastery course and Navigating the Messy Middle, both of which are built on safety, self-care and supportive community. Although we talk about structure in Memoir Mastery, we also spend a lot of time talking about the craft and technique of writing memoir: scene work, characterization, dialogue, etc.

Questions? Simply email me at tanja [at] tanjapajevic [dot] com and I’ll get back to you asap!