Your story has waited long enough.
Hear this page.
If you are ready, we would be glad to have you join us. You do not need to arrive with a plan for a book. You only need a story — and you already have one. Start with one memory, one photograph, one person, or one moment. Your companion will meet you there and help you take the next step whenever you are ready. There is no race to finish. Your story has waited long enough. Welcome to Writing Your Story.
A phone, a tablet or a computer.
Your voice.
Nothing to download. What it costs is said once, plainly, just below.
Open the door. After that, just talk.
$19.95 a month. One person per license. Unlimited writing. Cancel any time.
One license is one person: as many stories, visits and words as you want.
Cancel any time: write to info@lovingmywords.com and a person stops the subscription.
If the subscription stops, your seat rests. Your book stays yours to read, to hear and to take home, and the writing waits until the subscription begins again.
Care is never gated. Whatever the seat says, if you are in distress the room answers and gives the crisis lines in full.
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To give a seat to someone, choose Give a seat. The code to give comes to you by email, and the seat and the story belong to the person who writes.
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The door is right here.
Writing Your Story opens at its own door, on this site. There is nothing to download and nothing to install.
The room is being prepared for release. Sign-up opens soon.
See how it works — screens of the real door, made with a sample that says it is a sample.
Until the door opens, write to info@lovingmywords.com and a person will answer.
Two ways in.
Start your own subscription
$19.95 a month, one person per license, unlimited writing, cancel any time. Sign-up opens soon.
I was given a code
A family member, a friend or a facility gave you a seat. Say your code or type it at the door.
Either way, it is the same room and the same seal.
Writing Your Story runs on Loving My Words’ own server. You never need an account with any other company.
Would you like to give someone a seat? For Families says how a given seat works.
How it will work, in four steps.
Built, testing · The microphone (talk to Rye)
Go slowly. Nothing here is hard, and nothing here can be broken.
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Open the door.
Come to this site on a phone, a tablet or a computer. The welcome speaks by itself; you never have to read it.
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Your seat.
Two ways in. Start your own subscription: $19.95 a month, one person per license, unlimited writing, cancel any time; the room shows you your two codes once. Or, I was given a code: a family member, a friend or a facility gave you a seat — say your code or type it at the door. Either way, it is the same room and the same seal.
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Talk.
Type, or let your device’s own dictation type for you — your companion’s answers are read aloud to you. In a browser that can listen, you can press the microphone and talk out loud instead — it turns itself off after. Your companion listens, reads your words back to you, and changes nothing without your say: that’s me · change it · take it out.
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Your book.
When you say “That’s my story,” the book is built from your own words and handed to you. Keep it, make copies for family, or give a copy to a library, a historical society, a place of worship or a family archive of your choosing — the room sends nothing anywhere; you carry it there yourself. Your choice, and yours alone.
Need help? If something looks wrong.
Write to info@lovingmywords.com and a person will help you.
Need help? If you would rather talk than type — your phone, tablet or computer can listen.
Built, testing · The microphone (talk to Rye)
If you would rather talk than type.
Built, testing · The microphone (talk to Rye)
You never have to pick up a pen. Your voice is the pen. Most modern phones, tablets and computers include built-in voice and accessibility tools. Writing Your Story is voice-first and hands-free compatible: it is built to work with those tools (not yet tested on every device), and it never listens on its own — the microphone is off until you press it, and it turns itself off. Use whichever line below matches what is in front of you.
iPhone or iPad
Tap the box in the room where you tell your story, then tap the microphone on the keyboard and talk; tap it again when you are done. To have the screen read aloud to you, turn on VoiceOver in Settings › Accessibility.
Android phone or tablet
Tap the box in the room where you tell your story, then tap the microphone on the keyboard and talk. To have the screen read aloud, turn on TalkBack in Settings › Accessibility.
Mac
Turn on Dictation in System Settings › Keyboard, then press the key it gives you and talk. If your hands are not steady, turn on Voice Control in System Settings › Accessibility — it lets you run the whole machine by voice, without a mouse. To have the screen read aloud, turn on VoiceOver in the same place.
Windows
Press the Windows key and H together, and talk — that is Windows’ own dictation, and it types what you say wherever the cursor is. To have the screen read aloud, turn on Narrator with the Windows key, Ctrl and Enter together.
These are the device’s own tools, not ours — and they cost nothing extra. Availability and controls may vary by device. If one of them has moved on your machine, tell us and we will mend the page.
The room is built for this. It takes speech the way speech actually comes — the pauses, the fragments, the doubling back — it answers in short turns that are easy to listen to, and it offers to read anything back to you.
This site listens, too. In Chrome, Edge and Safari the browser’s own listening lets you move between pages by voice — say next page, the Pen, my book, help, stop reading. One touch on the first page lets the voice begin; your device’s own voice control can make that touch for you. Nothing you say to this site leaves your browser for us.
On a computer or a phone, say begin — or hello — and the voice starts, once the page has been touched one time: one click, one key, or someone typing begin for you. Your computer’s own voice control can make that touch too — on a Mac, Voice Control (“click Begin”); on Windows, Voice Access (“click Begin”); on a phone, “Hey Siri, open Writing Your Story”, then “tap Begin”. After that, say next, back, the Pen, my book, the Radio Room, help, stop reading, or read that again. Install the site as an app (in Chrome or Edge on a computer: the install button in the address bar; on a phone: add to home screen) and it can listen the moment it opens — no touch at all, on most computers and Android phones.
Need help? For a helper at the keyboard, a family, or a facility.
For a helper at the keyboard.
If you are a son, a daughter, a spouse, a friend, or a member of staff doing the typing: your hands on the keys and their voice in the room is a perfectly good arrangement, and the room is built for it. Open the door with them once, sit beside them, and let them talk while you keep up.
Two things to know. The room will ask how the teller would like to be addressed — their answer outranks yours, and if they have not said, the room uses no title at all. And every line the room writes is read back before it is kept, so read it out loud to them and let them be the one who says yes, change it, or take it out. The story is theirs, not yours and not ours.
If you are helping someone you love, start here.
The father who changes the subject, the grandmother who says “nobody wants to hear all that,” the husband who talks about everything except the year his brother died — being beside them for the first visit is most of the help they’ll ever need.
- Ask them how they want to be addressed — and let them answer. The room asks this at the door, and asks you too if you are the one at the keyboard, but their answer is the one that counts. Their first name, Mr. or Mrs. or Dr. and their surname, a title they carried through life, what the family calls them, or no title at all. Nobody here guesses.
- Sit with them the first time. Open the room together (here’s how to get it).
- Type for them, or start their device’s dictation. They never have to pick up a pen or touch a keyboard. Your hands on the keys and their voice in the room is a fine arrangement.
- Bring one photograph. The shoebox in the closet is a good first key. “Mom, who’s this next to you?” has started more chapters than any question we know. Or put an old song on and let the music do it.
- Let quiet be fine. If they talk about the weather the whole visit, that was a good visit. The past is never required. The room will still be there tomorrow, and so will the stories.
- Read the first page back together. Watching someone they love hear their own words is usually the moment they decide the book is worth writing.
For a facility, or a family giving a seat.
The room reaches the people in your care the same way it reaches anyone: the door on this site, the four steps in large print, and the sheet for speaking instead of typing. A family member, a friend or a facility can give a seat; the person who receives it says their code at the door. How a given seat works is on For Families. If you would rather a person walked your staff through it, one letter is enough: info@lovingmywords.com.
Need help? Would you rather a person walked you through it? One letter is enough.
Would you rather a person walked you through it?
One letter is enough. Write to info@lovingmywords.com and tell us who the room is for. There is nothing to fill in — a person reads every letter and answers it, in plain words.
If you need help right now.
This comes before the room, before the setup, and before everything else on this site. You do not have to be enrolled in anything to call, and you do not have to be in crisis to call.
United States
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call 988 · text 988 · chat online at 988lifeline.org. In an emergency, 911. Checked against 988lifeline.org on 2026-10-13.
United Kingdom
Samaritans — call 116 123. In an emergency, 999. Checked against samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan on 2026-10-13.
Canada
9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline — call 9-8-8 · text 9-8-8. In an emergency, 911. Checked against 988.ca on 2026-10-13.
Australia
Lifeline — call 13 11 14. In an emergency, 000. Checked against lifeline.org.au/131114 on 2026-10-13.
New Zealand
1737, Need to Talk — call or text 1737, free, day or night. In an emergency, 111. Checked against 1737.org.nz on 2026-10-13.
Anywhere else: the room asks where you are and gives that country’s line. Where it has no verified line for your country, it gives the general emergency number and says plainly that it could not verify one. It never invents a number.
Each line above is printed as its own service publishes it, with the official page it was checked against and the date it was checked, so you can check it yourself. Every line is checked again on a fixed schedule, and a line past its date stops the build. Talking with this room is never a substitute for talking with a person.
Every life has a story.
For people who have lived a long life and have stories worth keeping: teachers and farmers, nurses and mechanics, homemakers and shop owners, the ones surrounded by family and the ones on their own, the ones with a story ready to go and the ones who just want the company.
Wondering how a visit goes? Your Companion walks you through one.
One life. One book. Your words.
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Not sure what to do here? Questions about this page.
Built, testing · The microphone (talk to Rye)
Here are the short answers. Inside the room — at the door on this site — you can ask your companion any of these too: type it, or let your device’s own dictation type it for you, and the answer is read aloud to you.
What do I need?
A phone, a tablet or a computer, and your voice. Nothing to download. Writing Your Story is a Loving My Words system, run on its own server.
I don’t understand the steps.
Have a family member or a friend open the door with you once. After that you only talk. Or write to us and a person walks you through it.
What does it cost me?
$19.95 a month. One person per license. Unlimited writing. Cancel any time. Sign-up opens soon. If a family member, a friend or a facility gave you a seat, say your code at the door.
Do I have to type?
No. Open “Need help? If you would rather talk than type” below: most modern phones, tablets and computers include built-in voice and accessibility tools. Availability and controls may vary by device.
How do I go back?
The menu at the top takes you to any room. Inside the room, say what you want to do next and your companion takes you there.
Can you help me?
Write to info@lovingmywords.com. A person reads every letter and answers it in plain words.
Can I use this with no hands at all?
On these pages, yes: after one touch on the first page (a click, a key, or someone typing begin for you), or no touch at all when the site is installed as an app on your computer or phone, say begin, then say where you want to go. Inside the room, your device’s own voice control can press the microphone for you (“click Press to talk”), and every question after that is said aloud and answered by voice; the microphone turns itself off after each turn. That is proven on the house’s own test browser and not yet on real devices — the Ways in page at the door says what has been tested.