Write Wisdom by Loren Stephens, guidance for writing life story

Write Wisdom, Inc. was established by Loren Stephens, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer and former editor at Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company to provide support and guidance for anyone interested in writing their life story or memoir. In the belief that every life is unique and that every person deserves to examine what their life means through writing, Write Wisdom, Inc. serves as your writing partner, editor and coach.

Write Wisdom, Inc. can help you fashion a readable and compelling memoir through an organized process that will take you from the desire to tell your story to a completed manuscript and published book. Whether you want to explore your entire life, or share a particular adventure, unique accomplishment, or recovery from a personal tragedy, Write Wisdom, Inc. gives you the tools to overcome creative blocks and ensures that you cross the writing finish line. Along the way, you will discover coincidences, turning points, and influences that may have impacted your life in ways that you never realized. You will be on an exciting path of self-discovery, or what Eudora Welty calls, "the continuous thread of revelation."

Our subsidiary, Provenance Press, Inc., is available to turn your manuscript into a professionally designed and bound book to share with friends and family that will become your permanent legacy. Should you wish to include poems or excerpts from well known authors we will secure the necessary clearances, and will file your book with the Library of Congress to protect your copyright.

Write Wisdom, Inc. also conducts one-day writers workshops on “Writing Your Life Story” and “What Is Memoir.” These workshops are designed for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. Workshops are conducted in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ojai. A schedule of workshops is periodically updated on this website. We have also included a list of some of our favorite memoirs that represent different genres – the adventure story, the coming of age memoir, the personal journey of recovery. In reading these memoirs you will be both inspired and challenged to “take the first step,” an exercise that we have included for your own practice.


	Write Wisdom

*The events of our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order...the continuous thread of revelation.* ~Eudora Welty
Write Wisdom, Inc. was established by Loren Stephens, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer and former editor at Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company to provide support and guidance for anyone interested in writing their life story or memoir. In the belief that every life is unique and that every person deserves to examine what their life means through writing, Write Wisdom, Inc. serves as your writing partner, editor and coach. Write Wisdom, Inc. can help you fashion a readable and compelling memoir through an organized process that will take you from the desire to tell your story to a completed manuscript and published book. Whether you want to explore your entire life, or share a particular adventure, unique accomplishment, or recovery from a personal tragedy, Write Wisdom, Inc. gives you the tools to overcome creative blocks and ensures that you cross the writing finish line. Along the way, you will discover coincidences, turning points, and influences that may have impacted your life in ways that you never realized. You will be on an exciting path of self-discovery, or what Eudora Welty calls, "the continuous thread of revelation." Our subsidiary, Provenance Press, Inc., is available to turn your manuscript into a professionally designed and bound book to share with friends and family that will become your permanent legacy. Should you wish to include poems or excerpts from well known authors we will secure the necessary clearances, and will file your book with the Library of Congress to protect your copyright. Write Wisdom, Inc. also conducts one-day writers workshops on “Writing Your Life Story” and “What Is Memoir.” These workshops are designed for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. Workshops are conducted in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ojai. A schedule of workshops is periodically updated on this website. We have also included a list of some of our favorite memoirs that represent different genres – the adventure story, the coming of age memoir, the personal journey of recovery. In reading these memoirs you will be both inspired and challenged to “take the first step,” an exercise that we have included for your own practice.