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New from Your Write Path: Your Life, Your Story, Your Legacy
Your Life, Your Story, Your Legacy
Every life holds a story worth keeping, and too many are lost because we didn’t write them down. With Life Writing, I help people turn their memories into a finished book their families can hold, share, and pass down for generations.
After facilitating journaling and writing workshops for the past three years, I’m now offering to help you get your legacy down on paper. If you’d like to include photos, audio of you own narration, and even video, consider reaching out.
As a two-time Emmy Award–winning writer, author of fifteen novels, and a Certified Guided Autobiography Instructor, I’ve spent my career shaping stories. I’m still an author, still a workshop guide, and still here for whatever you’d like to accomplish.
From First Idea to Finished Book
With patience and time, listening carefully to what you want, I’ll guide you through every step:
- Finding your story. Together we explore the memories, people, and turning points that matter most, and uncover the themes that tie your life together.
- Building the outline. We shape those memories into a clear structure, so the project feels manageable instead of overwhelming.
- Writing it down. Write it yourself with my coaching and feedback, or let me help draft it from our conversations, in your voice.
- Editing and polishing. Careful editing makes your story read smoothly while keeping it unmistakably yours.
- Creating the book. I’m able to handle design, cover, and publishing through my own imprint, so you end with a real, professionally printed book, whether you want 10 copies or 50. It’s your story, and your choice.
Whether you want to preserve family history, share hard-won lessons, or simply make sense of the road you’ve traveled, you don’t have to do it alone. Your life is a story, and you’re the storyteller.
Let’s Begin
Contact me through through Your Write Path to talk about your legacy book.
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December Workshop ‘Chapter by Chapter: Writing Our Lives’ (Online)
Chapter by Chapter: Writing Our Lives
A 6-Week Online Journaling Workshop (via Zoom)See a PDF of the program here
When: Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. eastern
Starting December 5 $75
Click to RegisterEvery life is a story and each of us is the storyteller. Join workshop instructor Mark McNease for six weeks of guided writing, reflection, and connection as we explore the chapters of our lives, from earliest memories to the pages still being written.
Each week brings a new theme: family, turning points, work and purpose, love and loss, and the road ahead. No writing experience is required—just a readiness to remember, write, reflect, and share.
What to expect
Guided prompts each week to spark your memory
A small, supportive circle — share as much or as little as you like
No critique, no judgment — just your story, in your wordsLed by Mark McNease, Certified Guided Autobiography Instructor, workshop facilitator, author, and publisher. Read more about his workshops at YourWritePath.com.
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Gift Certificates Are Back! $40 for any workshop
Every life is a story, and each of us is the storyteller.
Give someone you care about time, space, and community. This $40 gift certificate can be used toward any Your Write Path workshop, including fiction writing, character creation, self-publishing, journaling and more, in person or online over Zoom.
Your Write Path workshops are warm, welcoming, and built for writers at every level. It’s a meaningful gift for birthdays, holidays, retirements, or anyone who has ever said, “I’ve always wanted to write.” From the essentials of writing fiction, to character creation and self-publishing, to life writing and journaling, these workshops are for anyone with a desire to explore and express themselves through writing.
You’ll receive a downloadable PDF of the certificate with purchase. When redeeming, specify which workshop it’s for. Purchaser will receive confirmation from Mark at Your Write Path.
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Some Writing Group Photos
New Hope Free Library Adult Writers Group
Hunterdon County Libryary Monthyly Journaling Group
Pine Run Valley – Pine Run University / Introduction to Journaling
Grundy Library, Bristol, PA
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Hunterdon Library Journaling Group
It’s been almost a year since I started facilitating a journaling group at Hunterdon County Library’s main branch. I love libraries! They’ve been so gracious and generous, and there has always been something special about them. Here’s to another year.
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Another Great Workshop – Fiction Writing Essentials (September 13)
Another great workshop? Of course!
Fiction Writing Essentials Workshop with Mark McNEase — Read Mill Books
Where: Read Mill Books
27 Center Street, Clinton NJ
When: Sunday, September 13
11:00 am – 1:00 p,Register at the bookshop:
https://www.readmillbooks.com/events-2-1/self-publishing-workshop-m7sbb
Every great story rests on a foundation of craft, This workshop covers the core elements of fiction writing in an easy-to study format that covers story structure, point of view, scene-building, dialogue, pacing, and the all-important question of what your story is really about. Whether you’re working on your first draft or trying to understand why a project isn’t coming together, Fiction Writing Essentials gives you the tools and the framework to move forward with confidence.
This workshop is ideal for writers at the beginning or intermediate stage who want a clear, practical grounding in how fiction works, and how to make it work for them.
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Event Posting in Patch
If you’re here from the event posting in Patch.com for Lambertville, New Hope and surrounding communities, I have made this a sticky post at the top. Please contact me at Mark AT YourWritePath.com for further details. The biweekly workshop is $10 per session to cover room fee, gas and handouts. Hope to see you there! – Mark
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Two Great Workshops This Week
Pine Run Village The Grundy Library in Bristol, PA I had the great pleasure of doing two workshops this week. One at Pine Run Village in Doylestown, PA, as part of their Pine Run University summer series, and one at the Grundy Library in Bristol, PA, where I was invited back after last year’s fiction writing workshop. What a pleasure!
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Biweekly Monday Journaling Group Resumes in September
After a short summer hiatus, the in person journaling group resumes at Soupcon (Bucks on Bridge) in Lambertville, starting Monday, September 14. Intimate, safe, and revelatory. Come as you are! $10 per session.
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My Article ‘Beyond the Page Margins: How Writers Can Expand Our Reach, Impact & Income’ Featured in Mystery Writers of America Newsletter
I was asked to write an article for the Mystery Writers of America’s newsletter, The 3rd Degree. It’s out, and I’m so pleased. It’s about how writers can take our experience and skills and offer them ‘beyond the page margins,’ from workshops to one-on-one coaching. You can read the entire newsletter here.
