Retainer program
Get personalized help with your writing project
"Your help and excellent counsel has helped me persevere to write my first book. I can't thank you enough." “You've given me so much--to not only jump start my rewrite in response to the agent feedback I received, but also to keep improving my writing on future projects." "My work has grown exponentially. Your comments were right on point." "You opened up for me a whole new realm of possibility that I couldn't seem to figure out!"
--past retainer clients
Eight weeks of private coaching with weekly check-ins by email, customized assignments, and evaluation of up to 250 d/s pages of your book-in-progress. Also available for newer writers who want help and accountability to start writing regularly. Email Mary for details: mary(at)marycarrollmoore(dot)com. One spot still open for October start (writing due in August), several open for November (writing due in September).
Summer one-day workshop
Saturday, July 22, 10:30-4:30 at the Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis
Writing Your Life: How to Plan, Write, and Develop Your Memoir
A thorough exploration of what makes memoir work--or not--and how to find your story's pivot, build from that point, and create a flow that serves it best. Find out more >
Fall online classes
Start October 25 for eight weeks
sponspored by The Loft Literary Center online
Strange Alchemy: How Place, People, and Situation Intertwine in Fiction and Memoir
The alchemy of these three essential elements will make or break your fiction or memoir writing. Study each, then lern to combine in exactly the right proportions to brinb your writing to a higher level. Find out more >
Your Book Starts Here: Learn to Storyboard Your Book!
Learn and practice a simple template to find the best structure for your book--in any genre. Find out more >
Your Book Starts Here: Part 3 (revision)
For writers of any genre with a complete manuscript draft who are ready for intensive workshopping of chapters at revision. Instructor permission required. Find out more >
Week-long writing retreats and independent study weeks
Your Book Starts Here: How to Plan, Write, and Develop Your Memoir, Novel, or Nonfiction Book
on Madeline Island, Lake Superior
October 16-20 (Independent Study week just added!)
at Tanque Verde Ranch, Tuscon
February 5-9, 2018
"Best creative week ever!" --past attendee
Give yourself--and your creativity--a week away, where you can focus on your book, have plenty of time to write, plus gain craft skills at your level through workshops and daily coaching sessions with Mary. Excellent accomodations, beautiful locations, where you can get quiet enough to hear your own words. For writers at any level with a book project in any genre. Find out more>
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"How to bake a book: Start with a big love of words, add a generous helping of Mary Carroll Moore, mix with leavening from your peers, knead vigorously for twelve weeks, and voila! Your book has risen!"
-- Eric Utne, founder of Utne Reader