Jennifer LandauJennifer Landau

Jennifer Landau is a writer and Author Accelerator-certified book coach in fiction and memoir. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from New York University and has worked as a teacher, medical writer, and children’s book editor. Her book coaching services focus on women in midlife and beyond writing memoir and literary and upmarket fiction.
Using the Workplace to Add Depth to Your Novel
Image: while three colleagues engage in heated discussion, an office worker holds her hands to her anguished face.
Using the workplace as more than a backdrop can supercharge the stakes, conflict, and character development of your fiction ...
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This Memoir Could Have Been an Email: Telling Your Story With Different Forms of Communication
Image: a woman sits looking at her smartphone. In the air around her are icons representing social media reactions, and email and phone notifications.
Different forms of communication—letters, voicemails, social posts—can enrich your memoir, so long as they help tap into something universal ...
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Breaking Point, Back Story, Resolution: A Three-Part Structure for Memoir
Image: against a black background, a hen egg is seen cracked in two, revealing that the former resident had been making hash marks inside the shell to count down the days until breaking free.
Memoir can benefit from starting at the moment that change became inevitable, then explaining what came before and what followed ...
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