The memoir of a condition and its containment. Covers Illness Memoir, Addiction Memoir, Recovery Memoir, Mental Illness Memoir, Disability Memoir, and any memoir where a condition of the body or mind organizes the writer’s continued life.

Includes:

• Excavation prompts across 5 lanes
• Character archetypes (The Diagnostic Voice, The Fellow Sufferer, The Caregiver, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Body Before, The Diagnosis Site, The Treatment Site, etc.)
• Dedicated Diagnostic Voice Protocol

The memoir of examining what shaped you. Covers Family Memoir, Difficult Parent Memoir, Cult Memoir, Faith Memoir, Trauma Memoir, and any memoir where honest examination requires rendering people who cannot consent, correct, or defend.

Includes:

• Excavation prompts across 5 lanes
• Character archetypes (The Difficult Parent, The Sibling, The Enabler, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The House of Origin, The Site of the Break, etc.)
• Sibling Discrepancy Protocol and Vindication Check

The memoir of chosen movement toward something. Covers Travel Memoir, Adventure Memoir, Pilgrimage Memoir, Year-Of Memoir, Spiritual Memoir, Adoption Search Memoir, and any memoir where the writer set out to find something and had to reckon with what they actually found.

Includes:

• Excavation prompts across 5 lanes
• Character archetypes (The Companion, The Guide, The Antagonist, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Setting-Out, The Threshold, The Turning Point, etc.)
• The Stated Reason Audit

The memoir of formation across developmental time. Covers Childhood Memoir, Coming-Out Memoir, Immigration Memoir, First-Generation Memoir, Generational Memoir, and any memoir where the young self must be rendered without the adult self flattening them into a lesson.

Includes:

• Excavation prompts across 5 lanes
• Character archetypes (The First Guide, The Peer Group, The Antagonist, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Home of Origin, The First Elsewhere, etc.)
• Child Witness Protocol and Nostalgia Audit

The memoir of an event larger than the self. Covers War Memoir, Atrocity Memoir, Disaster Memoir, Whistleblower Memoir, Journalism Memoir, Insider Memoir, and any memoir where the writer was present at events the historical record is still working out.

Includes:

• Excavation prompts across 5 lanes
• Character archetypes (The Dead, The Fellow Survivor, The Perpetrator, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Site of the Event, The Site of the Dead, The Memorial Site, etc.)
• The Obligation Section and The Factual Verification Protocol

The memoir of a specific loss and continued life. Covers Widow Memoir, Bereavement Memoir, Parent-Loss Memoir, Child-Loss Memoir, Suicide-Survivor Memoir, Ambiguous Loss Memoir, and any memoir where the central presence is now the central absence.

Includes:

• Excavation prompts across 5 lanes
• Character archetypes (The Lost Person, The Fellow Griever, The Grief Guide, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Place of the Loss, The Site of Burial or Absence, etc.)
• The Anti-Arc Section and The Rendering Absence Section

The memoir organized around a claim rather than a story. Covers Political Memoir, Manifesto, Cultural Criticism Memoir, Argument Memoir, Personal Liberation Memoir, Philosophical Memoir, and any memoir where the writer is asking the reader to accept something, not just to understand what happened.

Includes:

• Excavation prompts across argument-progression phases
• Character archetypes (The Argument’s Subject, The Opposition, The Predecessor, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Site of the Argument’s Origin, The Site of the Opposition, etc.)
• The Persuasion Ethics Section and The Vindication vs Argument Section