Before You Write Another 50,000 Words That Go Nowhere, Make Sure You’re Writing The Right Story
Blueprint for a Memoir gives you a proven process to uncover what your memoir is really about, strengthen the foundation of your story, and know what belongs on the page.
Whether you’re starting your memoir, stuck halfway through, or wondering how you’re going to finish, the Blueprint helps you see your story more clearly and how to know what to do next.
Writing More Pages Won’t Fix a Problem Underneath the Pages
You can keep drafting. You can rearrange scenes. You can deepen your story, rewrite the opening, or push yourself to finally get to THE END.
But if the foundational decisions underneath your memoir aren't clear, you can spend months trying to solve the wrong problems.
That's what the Blueprint is designed to prevent.
The Blueprint for a Memoir is a 14-step method of inquiry that helps you step back from the pages and see your memoir as a whole—what it's really about, what your reader wants, what's at stake, what changes, and why this story needs to be told.
It doesn't tell you what your memoir should be. It helps you make the decisions that make it yours.
Created by author, book coach, and Author Accelerator founder Jennie Nash, the Blueprint method has been used by thousands of writers and taught to nearly 450 professional book coaches.
“Before anyone is allowed to ask a writer-friend out for coffee ‘just to pick your brain’ about a book idea, they should be required to read this. It answers SO MANY QUESTIONS. I’m going to keep a stash of copies to hand out.”
—Mary Laura Philpott, author of Bomb Shelter and I Miss You When I Blink
Use the Blueprint at Any Stage of Your Memoir
➡️ You’re starting a new memoir.
You have an idea you can't stop thinking about—but you're not entirely sure how to turn it into a story that works.
Build the foundation before you spend months drafting.
➡️ You’re stuck in the middle.
You're 20,000, 40,000, maybe 60,000 words in—and something isn't working.
Step back, identify what's missing, and figure out what needs to happen next.
➡️ You’ve finished your first draft.
You wrote the book. Now comes the harder question: How do I make it better?
Test the foundation before you start moving scenes and rewriting pages.
The same Blueprint works at every stage because the questions underneath a strong memoir don't change.
Get the Complete Blueprint System for $19
This isn't a taste of the Blueprint or a stripped-down introduction.
You get the complete method.
➡️ Jennie Nash's Blueprint for a Memoir
The complete digital book and 14-step framework at the heart of the Blueprint method.
➡️ 14 video lessons with Jennie + Author Accelerator Certified Book Coaches
See the questions in action, hear different perspectives, and learn how to apply the Blueprint thinking to your own novel.
➡️ The Blueprint Workbook
Work through each question, capture your thinking, and build the Inside Outline that becomes a touchstone for your book as you draft and revise.
Everything you need to build your Blueprint. $19
This Is Not a Formula for Your Memoir
The Blueprint doesn't give you a set of beats to hit or tell you where your scenes belong.
It gives you better questions.
Questions that help you investigate the story you're trying to tell:
Why this book?
Why are you writing it, and what do you want the reader to experience?
What's actually at stake?
Why do the choices in this story matter?
What changes?
What happens internally as well as externally because of what you experienced?
How does it all hold together?
Can you see the cause-and-effect trajectory of the story from beginning to end?
You work through questions like these across the 14 Blueprint steps until you can see the architecture beneath your memoir.
Not someone else's formula for a good story. Your logic for this story.
Hi, I’m Jennie Nash
I'm an author, book coach, and the founder of Author Accelerator.
For more than a decade, I've been obsessed with one question:
What actually helps writers do their best work?
I've worked with writers at every stage of the process, trained nearly 450 book coaches, and developed tools that have helped thousands of writers move from an idea to a finished book.
The Blueprint is at the heart of that work.
Because I've seen again and again that writers don't necessarily need someone to tell them what to do.
They need a way to see their book clearly enough to decide what to do.
My definition of a better book is simple:
It's a book you actually write instead of just talking about writing.
And it's a book that gives readers an experience powerful enough that they want to tell someone else:
"You have to read this book."
That's what all these decisions are in service of.
“The Blueprint process makes me want to write, and it makes what I’m writing better. I read it before every draft. It’s that good.”
— KJ Dell’Antonia New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters, a Reese’s Book Club pick
See Your Memoir More Clearly.
Make the foundational decisions underneath your story.
Know why you're making them.
And get back to the page knowing what you're trying to build.
Blueprint for a Memoir
Complete digital book + 14 video lessons + workbook