Who it's for
Your own memoir, spoken first
A memoir is not a life from birth to now; it is a life seen through one question. This asks you that question and the hundred that follow, by voice, and writes the book from what you say.
What makes it work
Built for exactly this.
Talk, don't type
Spoken answers are looser and truer. The transcript is the first draft, in your voice.
An interviewer that remembers
It knows which people are faint and which stories stop halfway, and asks.
Memoir or novel
Only what was said, in your words; or a story built on the true facts with the inventions listed.
Start here
Free, whether or not you use Tellforth.
Question listQuestions to askIn the order a good interviewer would ask themGuideHow to write a memoir (without being a writer)A plain method for writing a memoir: pick the through-line, talk before you type, build people from particulars, and finish.The booksEvery kind of bookMemoir, novel, young adult, picture book, and moreOccasionA milestone birthday of your ownFor your own milestone birthday: an interviewer who asks you the questions, remembers every answer, and writes your memoir from what you say, so the book finally gets written.
Also for
Other people it was made for.
A book of your grandparents' storiesFor families who want a grandparent's stories told, by voice, at their pace, and written into a real book while there is time.Your parents' story, finishedFor adult children who want to give a parent the gift of being listened to, and get back a book in their voice.When someone is facing somethingFor a person with a serious diagnosis, and the family around them, who want their story told on their terms, with control, dignity and no pressure.For hospice and palliative care teamsA legacy program for patients and families: dignified, controlled by the patient, and useful to the team.A book your child wrote, starring your childFor parents who want to catch a child's own stories, in their own words, and turn them into a picture book they are the hero of.The story of the company, told by the people who built itA founder memoir or company history gathered by interviewing the people who were there, in scenes, with the near-death included.
Tellforth
Tell it forward.
The stories are already there. All that is missing is someone to ask.
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