Write Your Story: How to Stay Married: An Unpopular Take on a Popular Book
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
More than a year ago, someone recommended I read the memoir called How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key. It reminded them, in some ways, of my memoir from 2017 about a marriage crisis, called Indestructible.
It took me more than a year to hit “play” on the audible file, but by the time I started it, I also finished in a matter of a few days.
The speed at which I consumed the book, however, does not necessarily reflect how I felt about the story. There are certain elements that must be present in a narrative in order for it to feel complete. I detail these in my book, Write Your Story and teach the framework in my workshops by the same name.
Some of these elements were, in my honest opinion, missing from this text.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Pick up the pieces of your life, |
| 0:07.6 | put them back together with the words you write, |
| 0:10.5 | all the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find. |
| 0:15.1 | When you write your story, |
| 0:17.5 | you've got the words inside, don't you think it's time |
| 0:20.6 | to let them out and write them down, |
| 0:22.9 | uncover what it's all about. |
| 0:26.4 | And write your, write your story, write your story. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm your host. And on today's episode, I'm going to do something that I've done a couple of times before, but I haven't done it a while, |
| 0:44.1 | which is to review a book that I read recently, not from the standpoint of you should go buy this book |
| 0:50.1 | or you shouldn't go buy this book, but really from the standpoint of how are the elements of |
| 0:55.0 | storytelling present in this book? How are they working or maybe not quite working? |
| 1:01.3 | Hoping that this conversation will help you if you are someone who has a personal story that you |
| 1:06.5 | would love to tell. Maybe you have an idea for a memoir. You want to put your story, something you've lived |
| 1:12.4 | through into words. You're trying to create the structure. You're trying to get some momentum on it. |
| 1:18.1 | You're trying to get started writing. And you're having a hard time really understanding how to put |
| 1:21.8 | the thing together. I think reading this book and talking about it through the lens of what's |
| 1:27.2 | working and what's not |
| 1:28.1 | working is going to help anybody who has ever considered taking a story from their life and |
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