Guided Completion

How it works

From your questions to their handwriting, in four steps

You choose the questions

Twenty-five of them: three from each of eight categories, and one you write yourself.

The workbook is posted out

A 7 × 10 inch workbook, coil-bound and generously ruled, with a prepaid tracked label already in the box. They write in their own hand, at their own pace, and post it back when they are ready.

We photograph it and set the book

Every page is photographed at high resolution, the pale ruling drops away, and their handwriting is placed on the page of an 8½ × 11 inch hardback. If you chose Guided Completion Plus, a typed page faces each handwritten one. Six to eight weeks from the day it reaches us.

They see it first, then you approve it

The storyteller sees the finished book before anyone else — as a file, or read aloud — and may remove anything without giving a reason. Then you approve it, and only then is it printed.


Two pairs of hands, one older and one younger, shelling peas into a white bowl set on spread newspaper.