Michelle Ireland

Writing about your life is a self-scare—you have to look at it before you can share it. On the courage memoir takes, and the safe space that holds it.

The strange paradox of trying to be someone else in order to be yourself—and why the masks have to come off before the real book can be written and you can find your writing voice.

The dreamy writer's life—villa, cuppa, rolling hills—isn't how books get made. Here's what writing a book is really like, and why the reality is better.