You know you need to write it. You've known for a while. What you don't have yet is the shape — the structure that turns everything you've lived into a story someone else can follow. This is what the toolkit builds for you.
The story has always been there. The structure is what was missing.
✦ What the Memoir Toolkit does ✦You've lived through something that changed you. You know you need to write it — for yourself, for the people who come after you, or because it won't leave you alone until you do. The story is complete. It happened.
But knowing your story and knowing how to structure it are two entirely different things. Where do you start? What goes in Part One? How do you handle the people who are still in your life? How do you write toward the truth without losing the thread?
Those aren't failures of memory or courage. They're structural problems. And structure is exactly what the toolkit solves.
Three steps. One sitting. No writing experience required — just the story you already know.
Six sections of questions built for memoir — your before and after, the people in it, the thing you want readers to finally understand. Takes about ten minutes. There are no wrong answers.
Your answers are transformed into a precision AI prompt — calibrated to your specific story, your chosen structure, your emotional register. Not a template. Not average. Built from what you told us.
Copy the prompt into any AI — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini. What comes back is a chapter-by-chapter memoir outline built entirely around your life. Then you write.
No subscription. No monthly fees. Use your prompts with any AI, any time — today and five years from now.
The full wizard — six sections, structured for true stories. Everything your AI needs to generate a chapter-by-chapter memoir outline built entirely around your life.
A real example — illustrative only. Your output is built entirely from your answers.
Illustrative example — your output is built from your answers, not from a template
"Every story starts with the right questions. Most people just haven't been asked them yet." ✦ The idea behind every Rebellion Press toolkit ✦
No. The toolkit works best when you're at the beginning — when the story is clear in your memory but the page is still blank. You answer questions about your life and what happened. The toolkit turns your answers into a structure. The writing comes after.
The toolkit was built for exactly that. The wizard asks about the people in your story who resist simple characterization, the scene that scares you a little to write, and whether your story is still unfolding or fully in the past. The outline it produces reflects that complexity — it doesn't flatten it.
Any of them. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all work well. We recommend Claude for memoir — it handles emotional nuance and long, structured prompts particularly well. Whichever AI you already use is a fine starting point.
The Hard Scene identifies the most difficult scene in your specific story — the one where the language in your outline might go vague, where chronology might skip, where the emotional temperature drops. Then it builds a structured way into that scene: starting from the sensory periphery, grounding in the physical, finding the detail that holds the whole thing without declaring it. It's for writers who know which scene they've been avoiding — and are ready to stop avoiding it.
Both. Memoir and autobiography tell true stories — the difference is mostly in scope and frame. The wizard asks which kind of story you're writing and calibrates accordingly. If you're unsure which yours is, the questions themselves will help you find out.
After completing the wizard and purchasing, you receive two emails. The first is your order confirmation. The second delivers your memoir outline prompt as a .txt file attachment — ready to paste into any AI and generate your outline. If you purchased add-ons, those prompts arrive in the same email. Most writers have their outline within the hour.
The Memoir Toolkit is ten minutes of questions and a structure that makes the blank page possible. The writing is still yours. But this is where you start.
