You know your story. It's about you, after all. But how do you make your tale so engaging that it pulls the reader in page after page? In this five week class, successful memoirist Monica Holloway takes you behind the scenes, exploring techniques for making the truth more compelling than fiction.
Though in-class lectures, writing exercises, and targeted workshopping sessions, you'll explore the essential ingredients of memoir: voice, story structure, character, and conflict, and take writing “what you know” to the next level. You’ll also learn how to write personal stories and find the through-line of your book as a whole. If you like, you can even bring in up to 1200 words of your memoir for targeted feedback every other session!
By the end of the class, you’ll have crafted several chapters of your memoir and made them so intriguing, agents will return your calls! Experienced and beginning writers welcome.
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.