Finding Your Voice in Writing and Life
Do you write to know yourself? Do you scribble to connect with your purpose, mission, and dharma? Do you aspire to write about your life but feel daunted and wish you knew more about how to do it? In addition to my writing, my life’s work is helping others tell their stories in memoir form. […]
Brad Wetzler Recalls His Experience with Outside Magazine’s 1996 “Into Thin Air” Article
It was the worst story idea an editor could come up with. That’s how I felt on Saturday, May 11, 1996, the day I heard Jon Krakauer had disappeared while reporting for Outside on the growing phenomenon of commercially guided trips up Mount Everest. Perhaps I was overestimating my responsibility in the matter. But it was difficult […]
Brad Wetzler Talks about His Message of Healing in His Memoir Into the Soul of the World
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Brad Wetzler Discusses His Love for India and His Memoir Into the Soul of the World
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Brad Wetzler Discusses His Inspiration for Writing His Memoir Into the Soul of the World
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Memoir Tips: How to Reclaim and Reframe Your Story and Finally Write Your Memoir
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Brad Wetzler Talks about Healing from Addiction and PTSD and His Memoir Into the Soul of the World
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Brad Wetzler Talks about Faith and His Memoir Into the Soul of the World
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Memoir Talk: Brad Wetzler Discusses His Memoir “Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing”
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The Path with Brad Wetzler Podcast | Ep 3: Ross Wehner on Education, Purpose, and the Future of Wisdom
Know Your Memoir’s Why: The Intentional Arc in Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction
The Path with Brad Wetzler Podcast | Ep 2: Matthew Andrews on Yoga, Pilgrimage, and Devotion
The Path with Brad Wetzler Podcast | Ep 1: BK Loren on Nature, Spirituality, and the Unnameable
The Path with Brad Wetzler Podcast | Ep 1: BK Loren on Nature, Spirituality, and the Unnameable
How to Turn Yourself into a Character in Nonfiction and Memoir
In this 30-minute writing lesson, writing teacher and book writing coach Brad Wetzler discusses various techniques writers can use to turn our complex human personalities into coherent characters that the reader can make sense of and follow through the course of a story.
The VAST Method of Narrative Writing (aka The Magic Formula)
Struggling to write a nonfiction book or memor? In this video, writing teacher Brad Wetzler discusses his VAST Method of Narrative Writing. It will help you make progress, finish, and publish your book.
Showing, Telling, and the Art of Embodied Writing in Memoir and Nonfiction Writing
In this 30-minute writing tutorial, writing teacher and book writing coach Brad Wetzler discusses the difference between showing and telling in narrative writing and how to write in a more embodied way. Here are a few of the concepts Brad Wetzler addresses: 1. What is showing? Showing involves writing in a way that allows the reader to […]
The Three Arcs of a Story
Are you struggling to write a memoir or nonfiction book? Your writing will get stronger when you understand the three arcs of narrative writing: physical, emotional, and intentional.
The Life-Changing Art of Tidying Up Your Sentences
In this 30-minute nonfiction and memoir instructional video, writing teacher and book writing coach Brad Wetzler discusses tangible ways that writers can clean up their sentences and write more powerfully. Here are a few concepts that Brad discusses: 1. Lean on strong verbs. 2. Lose the adverbs. 3. Lose adjectives when possible, too. 4. […]
How to Structure Your Memoir or Nonfiction Book
Brad Wetzler, author, journalist, award-winning editor, book writing coach, and yoga/mindfulness teacher, discusses how to structure your memoir or nonfiction book.