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45: Mike Oke and His Unorthodox Approach to Life Story Writing

Mike Oke of Bound Biographies doesn’t write his clients’ life stories; they do.
Funny how we think our way of doing something is the standard approach. And then along comes someone like Mike Oke, a 27-year veteran life story writer, who says he can’t believe everybody else isn’t following the model he practices. After our podcast interview, I can see where he’s coming from.

44: Gwen Hernandez, author of Scrivener for Dummies

Gwen Hernandez is novelist who learned Scrivener the natural way—by using it. She shared what she knew with the online community, and her reputation as someone who not only used the writing software, but someone who could explain how to use it, took off. The author of Scrivener for Dummies talks to The Life Story Coach about some of the ways we can keep our writing, research, interviews, and everything else organized with what she calls the “project manager for books.”

43: Rachel Brenke Livens Up the Legal Stuff

Rachel Brenke with advice for life story professionals—it’s not as hard as you think!
Going into business for yourself can be scary. There are forms to fill out, licenses to apply for, new checking accounts to set up. And then there’s the whole business about contracts, services agreements, insurance—do I need it or not?—along with lots of other things that can send your head into a spin.

42: Cynthia Kyriazis with Tips to Get Organized, Get Focused, Get Moving

In this episode, we discuss, how productivity is about being effective and efficient at the right time; how procrastination, like any other habit, can be replaced by a better one; how clutter (my old friend clutter!) is symptomatic of delayed decision making (read: procrastination); Cynthia’s three dead simple questions for strategic planning.

41: Nitty Gritty on Editing Life Stories, Part II; Using Scrivener

This one is a quickie! I give you an overview of how I use Scrivener to wrastle documents into order so that I can find them when I need them. You’ll also see how the split Editor pane in Scrivener is a life story gal’s best friend.

40: Nitty Gritty on Editing Life Stories, Part I

Going from interview transcript to book draft can be hard. That’s why I decided to share my system with you. In this episode, I talk about how I used to do it with Mac Pages. In part II, I’ll talk about how I edit life story books with Scrivener.