Memoir Is Dangerous. Fiction Is Safer.

A Paris lunch. One decision. Six books later.What happens when a coach decides to write a book and discovers she has no idea what she's doing?In this conversation, I sit down with my longtime friend and collaborator, Lynn Burney, to explore her remarkable journey from writing for herself to becoming the author of six self-published books.We begin in Paris at Le Train Bleu, the legendary restaurant inside Gare de Lyon, where Lynn first announced her intention to write a book on coaching. What followed was not the book she expected to write.Instead, she discovered the power of story, memoir, and eventually fiction. Along the way, she learned hard lessons about memory, truth, self-publishing, audience, and the difference between writing for yourself and writing for a reader.Together, we explore pilgrimage, grief, creativity, aging, memoir, fiction, and the surprising freedom that comes from taking responsibility for your own publishing journey.A conversation about books, friendship, and what happens when curiosity becomes a lifelong creative practice.