Jennifer LandauJennifer Landau

Jennifer Landau is a writer, editor, and Author-Accelerator-certified book coach in memoir and fiction. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from New York University and has worked as a senior editor at an educational publisher. Her coaching and editorial work focuses on women at midlife and beyond writing memoir.
How to Center Your Story When Writing About the People in Your Life
Image: a spiral notebook with the words "You come first, not second" stands on a table.
When writing about a significant relationship, here are some tips to make sure you don’t end up a supporting player ...
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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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